Multiplex communications – Wide area network – Packet switching
Patent
1989-12-21
1991-01-29
Crosland, Donnie L.
Multiplex communications
Wide area network
Packet switching
350 9616, 372 32, 455618, H04J 1402, H04B 1004
Patent
active
049892010
ABSTRACT:
An optical communication system in which a group, or "comb", of intelligence-bearing signals are frequency-division-multiplexed and stabilized using a corresponding "comb" of resonances associated with a Fabry-Perot cavity.
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AT&T Bell Laboratories
Beek L. Van
Crosland Donnie L.
Dworetsky Samuel H.
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