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This term paper discusses future outlook of fiber optics. Cladding-pumped fiber technology has revolutionized fiber lasers over the last decade, increasing output power from less than with traditional core-pumping to well over 100 W (Nilsson et al. 50), by 2007, Copper cabling will be superseded in the communications industry, even in rural communities.

In an article in Scientific America Bishop et al. observe:

In the next generation of communications, it will not be enough to use fiber to transmit information from one point to another…. Switching will have to be done optically to void optoelectronic conversions. (Bishop et al 88)

Cladding-pumped fiber technology has revolutionized fiber lasers over the last decade, increasing output power from less than with traditional core-pumping to well over 100 W (Nilsson et al. 50), by 2007, Copper cabling will be superseded in the communications industry, even in rural communities. Heavy competition from the optical fiber (Corning CI) and wireless networking (MST&T) giants will force the optical wiring technology up to a blazing data transfer rate of 30millionbps. Wireless, however boasts 10 million bps, but will be used for several wearable machines. The speed advantage of the optical fiber networks will be still enough to have kept Corning CI ahead in the distribution of information technology via networks. It is the backbone for all major networks, including for those wireless networking solutions.

And that is just the beginning there are plans as Blumenthal mentions in his article and possibility of having microprocessors made of optical chips rather than transistors. (97) And Yablanovitch (47) has reiterated this.

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