WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING

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Information on Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) is the sharing of an optical fibre channel by providing multiple channels, each of which modulates a laser of different wavelength. Wavelength division multiplexing is a modern form of frequency-division multiplexing (FDM).


Other topics in our resources on Communications Systems related to Wavelength division multiplexing include: 
 
  • multiplexing
  • frequency-division multiplexing (FDM)
  • wavelength
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