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To: Shaw who wrote (1397)	12/28/2000 5:43:18 PM
From: knkesh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2293

AVANEX - BURN OUTS!!?? This is a posting from a Motley Fool Thread (Worrying!) :- Victor, I wanted to thank you for reminding is all about the important issue of power handling in high channel-count systems. We have not discussed that in a while, and as people start referring to 100,000 channels or whatever, they haven't really talked about the power requirement. The Simon Cao description of a switchless internet means many many many wavelengths on a fiber and even if each wavelength had 20mW of power, at 100,000 lambdas you now have to manage 2kW of power! yah right! That, folks, is the amount of energy emitted by 20 x 100W light bulbs all in the space of a 9 micron fiber. Right now in labs people are investigating the effects of high powers on optical connectors. They are finding that at around 1w or higher, any significant amount of dirt on a connector causes the fiber to burn. It's an interesting effect, because as the fiber burns the poor interface moves back into the fiber cable and the burning moves backwards at an astonishing rate, destroying the whole cable!Thanks,harry