Abstract

Technological developments in the areas of laser sources, optical detectors and above all, optical fibers have revolutionized the area of telecommunications and networking. Recent advances in the area of zero dispersion operation, dispersion compensation, rare earth doped fiber amplifiers and soliton communication systems have provided communication engineers with almost limitless bandwidth operating over millions of kilometers. Some of the recent developments in this area will be briefly described in this article.

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