Talk:Optical communication

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It would be nice if an expert could give a plain-English basic example or description of how fiber optic communication works. This is very heavy reading, and almost indecipherable for somebody without extensive knowledge on a whole host of related topics.

I think this page needs to be merged with optical telegraph. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 21:08, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Optical fibers are quite different from semaphones, which are the major focus of optical telegraph. Dilbert 17:06, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Directly modulated lasers

The point that the chirp induced pulse broadening is a main degradation in directly modulated laser systems is ambigous, since is it the chirp that limits the transmission distance or the tolerable input power to the fiber.