Thanks, Jay. You are proving to be quite an asset on this board. I'm going to add these references to my other JL homework assignments, immediately behind meta-web'ing. Which, by the way, did prove to open up some rather awesome new vistas of exploration for me, I might add. It completely shattered some stereotyped visions in some respects, and I thank you for bringing those concepts to the board, whether you knew that you were responsible for doing that, or not ;-)
As an aside, in my earlier message I stated that one of my interests was in the power required for deep sea fiber amplification. Currently (no pun intended), subsea cables are limited to the number of fiber strands they can support to between 8 and 12 strands, due to the extremely difficult powering issues which prevail in order to amplify wavelengths at the greater spacing intervals, or at any intervals, for that matter, when power must be pulled from a great distance. This has a direct bearing, obviously, on the total carrying capacity of the transoceanic system. If long-term powering alternatives (be they battery or other forms of generation) to those which are now entirely shore-based longitudinal distribution (over the entire distance of the cable system) ever come about, an entire new window of spectrum will open up between the continents. Add soliton technologies, and you are there.
Regards, Frank Coluccio |
