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1550 nm

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1550 nm

One of the two optical windows in an optical fiber where the glass is most transparent and efficient for transmission. See optical fiber.



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The 1550 nm laser is a distributed-feedback (DFB) laser with a coherence length of a few hundred meters.
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This past summer, a novel NIST transfer standard based on germanium photodiodes was used in an intercomparison of OFPMs with PTB at nominal wavelengths of 1300 nm and 1550 nm (wavelengths at which most of the world's optical-fiber-based communication is transmitted).
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