VickFury

the erbium reacts when it is blasted with the laser making it a natural amplifier. the natural properties of erbium is extremely interesting. google up erbium or check it out on wikipedia.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erbium

Heisenberg uncertainty principle is interesting

FTTH also known as fiber to the home is a way of delivering voice data and video to the customer home through a fiber optic network. Fiber optic lines terminate at the demarc point of the customer home. There are three main parts to this network. The central office (CO), the fiber distribution hub(FDH), and the optical network terminal (ONT). The CO takes voice data and video and combines them and sends them out on a single fiber strand to a 32port fiber splitter in the FDH. from there one of the 32 fiber lines continues to the customer home. The ONT usually sits outside where the utilities come in, tv, phone, and power. The ONT demuxes the 3 signals of voice, data, and video. From there regular phone is delivered and data and video goes in through coax much like cable tv would. The huge advantage of fiber is the amount of bandwidth available on a single fiber optic line is capable of pure uncompressed video signal capable of handling hundreds of HD channels, superfast internet with no latency, and excellent voice service. It gets much deeper then that but I kept it simple so as not to bore the casual passer-by Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedEDFA is a piece of equipment at the central office. It stands for Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier. Erbium accelerates the fiber signal. Usually at 1550nm. The reason this is good is because this is an OOO amplifier. Optical optical optical. rather than Optical Electrical Optical. This costs too much to convert down and then back up. This erbium is an element usually found in scandanavia. I would like to hear from the photonics people.

I currently am a fiber installer for one of the largest FTTH deployments in the USA. I would be willing to help anyone understand what goes into deploying this wonderful technology. In return I ask for a challenging and thought provoking environment. Who knows, maybe we can develop new science and technology here on these forums. Every good product started with an idea. Thanks Victor aka VickFury agent of nothing