On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Heath Jones <hj1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm not clever enough to know of some way that you could do optical > regeneration without converting the signal to electrical and > retransmitting back as optical.. How is that done? > > I'm not sure how it's done in practice, but check out doped fiber amplifiers for one possibility. One has to grok laser fundamentals to get what's going on, but it's not an especially complex topic. -Nick
