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On January 20-22, 1999, UCLA Extension will present the short course,
"Wavelength-Division-Multiplexed Systems and Technologies", on the 
UCLA campus in Los Angeles.

The instructor is Alan E. Willner, PhD, Professor, Electrical
Engineering Systems, University of Southern California.

With the advent of the Erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA),
single-channel transmissions at 5 Gb/s across 9,000 km and 200 Gb/s
over 100 km have been accomplished, but with disadvantages: they
utilize only a small fraction of the enormous 25,000-GHz low-loss
bandwidth available, and they connect two distinct end points, not
easily allowing for an all-optical high-speed multi-user environment.
To exploit more of the fiber's THz bandwidth, solutions should
complement traditional time-division multiplexing. A popular and
recently developed choice is wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM),
in which several channels are simultaneously transmitted along a
single fiber but with each channel located at a different wavelength.
The multiple wavelengths provide higher capacity along fiber 
links and wavelength-dependent routing through a network. As the 
technology of choice for dramatically upgrading the capacity of fiber 
systems at a reasonable cost, WDM growth has exploded in recent years.

This course addresses the many technical issues, possible solutions,
and recent progress in the exciting and relatively young area of
multi-channel WDM systems. Discussions center on various device,
system, and network limitations and applications.

The course fee is $1195, which includes all course materials.  These
materials are for participants only and are not for sale.

For additional information and a complete course description, please
contact Marcus Hennessy at:

(310) 825-1047
(310) 206-2815  fax
mhenness@unex.ucla.edu
http://www.unex.ucla.edu/shortcourses/

This course may also be presented on-site at company locations.