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To: Curtis E. Bemis who wrote (81)	6/7/2000 3:11:00 PM
From: ftth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Thanks Curtis, that's just the sort of "back of the napkin" calculation I was looking for. That puts it in good perspective if there is no storage or reserve capacity. Do you suppose there could be an assigned 'out of band' wavelength targeted just for such a conversion where the power on this wavelength is much larger and it is chosen work optimally with current photodetector efficiencies, and maybe there is a receive array where we take a summed output of multiple detectors in order to arrive at a larger useful power? In effect I guess that would just equate to a more efficient conversion device since I'd suppose that spreading and splitting (a single wavelength) to multiple devices of the same efficiency would be <= the output of 1. Also wonder what problems a disproportionatly large transmit power on one wavelength would create on the properties of the fiber (or any intermediate devices' clip margin) that would affect the data carriers also riding on that fiber. Know of any "broadband" receive arrays that could collect and convert the activity on the data carriers (multiple wavelengths), assuming it is an always-active link?