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At 08:13 PM 2/18/96 -0500, Dave Emery wrote:
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>>
>> Bob writes:
>>
>> > Does anyone know if the new in-line optical amplifiers (not switches!) have
>> > any effect on quantum crypto messages?
>
> Optical
>> repeaters have to pass your signal through an intermediate electronic
>> stage anyway, since we have no purely optical valve/transistor
>> equivalents (bosons don't interact with each other at all).
>
> This is not true. There is now a whole technology of optical
>amplifiers for fiber communications systems that used Ettrium doped
>fibers pumped
The proper name is "Erbium." But the rest of Dave Emery's commentary is
accurate.
Jim Bell
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Klaatu Burada Nikto
Something is going to happen. Something.....Wonderful!
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