...capacity of a given optical fibre network to be multiplied in principle by 1,000 times or more by splitting the overall lightsignal into multiple wavelengths. Each wavelength then carries a single channel of communication, each with the potential...
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2000/10/05/175532/into-the-blue.htm
...cables (called Rayleigh scattering). Hackers can get the information without physically touching the fiber or even the lightsignal itself. Once a successful tap has been accomplished, a packet sniffer - software that records, monitors, and...
http://www.securitypark.co.uk/security_article263462.html
...approach is CDS (Correlated Double Sampling), having one lightsignal read by two circuits. First, only the noise is read. Next, it is read in combination with the lightsignal. When the noise component is subtracted from the combined...
http://www.nikondigital.org/articles/canon_fullframe_whitepaper.pdf