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Nature 440, 36-37 (2 March 2006) | doi:10.1038/440036a; Published online 1 March 2006
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Device physics: Electrical solitons come of age
Thomas H. Lee1
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Individual packets of light energy, known as optical solitons, have long been the darlings of communications engineers. Finally, their electrical siblings are getting a look in — and could become the new favourites.
Digital communication systems seem so robust that many of us take their reliability as an axiom of modern life. That reassuring façade, however, belies a surprising fragility: in practical communication systems, impairments of a distinctly analogue nature can affect the propagation of digital pulses.
- Thomas H. Lee is in the Center for Integrated Systems, Stanford University, 420 Via Palou Mall, Stanford, California 94305-4070, USA.
Email: tomlee@smirc.stanford.edu
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