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on Feb 28, 2012
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How do they power the repeaters? I thought the cable itself was just fiber optic, thus no electricity transmission
cullenking
on Feb 28, 2012
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They talk about it in the PDF. Apparently they use a 1400nm laser along the same fiber that excites some receptor, which provides the power for the amplification.
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