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• The Optical World
  • Table of contents
  • I. Introduction
  • II. Why optical technology?
  • III. Optical communication networks and devices
  • IV. Standardization activities
    • 4.1 Optical Transport Network (OTN)
    • 4.2 Optical switching and optical cross-connect
    • 4.3 Automatically switched optical network (ASON) architecture
    • 4.4 Passive optical network (PON)
    • 4.5 Optical exchange
    • 4.6 Visible light communication (VLC)
    • 4.7 Optical data transfer inside the computer
      • 4.7.1 Thunderbolt
      • 4.7.2 Silicon photonics
      • 4.7.3 Optical Bus
    • 4.8 All-optical computers
    • 4.9 Challenges ahead
  • V. Conclusion
  • Glossary of acronyms
  • Bibliography