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COMPEN
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COMPENCompensate
COMPENCompensator


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Fujitsu's line of cutting-edge, high-performance optical components, which includes 300pin Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) transponders, 10 Gigabit Small Form Factor Pluggable (XFP) and Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP) MSA transceivers, optical transceivers for PON, Lithium Niobate (LN) external modulators, and a variable chromatic dispersion compensator using Virtually Imaged Phased Array (VIPA) technology, have already been available to customers in global markets.
Durliakhov, the academy graduate and teacher, was the first to invent (as early as the late 19th century) the recoil compensator for the field gun.
A calibrated scale on the compensator supplies a quantitative reading of retardation, which can then be used as a gauge of the stress value or can be converted into units of birefringence or stress (MPa or psi) by means of a simple equation.
 
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