Special Issue on Fiber Amplifiers and Their Applications to Lightwave
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Communications
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 . FOREWORD ........................................................ 419
        Kazuo HAGIMOTO

INVITED PAPERS
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 . Praseodymium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers at 1.3ƒÊm ............. 421
        Yasutake OHISHI, Terutoshi KANAMORI, Makoto SHIMIZU, Makoto
        YAMADA, Yukio TERUNUMA, Jiro TEMMYO, Masato WADA and Shoichi SUDO

 . 100 Gbit/s Transmission Using All Optical Circuits .............. 441
        Satoki KAWANISHI and Masatoshi SARUWATARI

PAPERS
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 . Suppression of Gain Bandwidth Narrowing in a 4 Channel WDM System
   Using Unsaturated EDFAs and a 1.53ƒÊm ASE Rejection Filter . 449
        Masuo SUYAMA, Takahumi TERAHARA, Susumu KINOSHITA, Terumi
        CHIKAMA and Masaaki TAKAHASHI

 . Studies on Optimization of an Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier Suitable
   for an Optical Transmission Line Containing an Amplifier Repeater
            ........................................................ 454
        Shigeyuki SEIKAI, Shintaro SHIMOKADO, Tadashi FUKUOKA and
        Tatsuo TOHI

 . Reduction of Timing Jitter due to Gordon-Haus Effect in Ultra-Long
   High Speed Optical Soliton Transmission Using Optical Bandpass 
   Filters ......................................................... 462
        Shingo KAWAI, Katsumi IWATSUKI, Ken-ichi SUZUKI, Shigendo NISHI
        and Masatoshi SARUWATARI

Regular Section
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PAPERS
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[Switching and Communication Processing]

 . On the Design of Large ATM Switch Using Star Couplers and Tunable
   Devices with Restrained Tuning Range ............................ 469
        Chanyoung PARK and Chong Kwan UN

[Communication Theory]

 . Traffic Analysis of the Sotp-and-Wait ARQ over A Markov Error
   Channel ......................................................... 477
        Masaharu KOMATSU, Chun-Xiang CHEN and Kozo KINOSHITA

 . Throughput Analysis of ARQ Schemes in Dialogue Communication over
   Half-Duplex Line ................................................ 485
        Chun-Xiang CHEN, Masaharu KOMATSU and Kozo KINOSHITA

[Power Supply]

 . Analysis of the Circuit for Dead Angle Compensation in the DC-to-DC
   Converter Controlled by a Magnetic Amplifier ..................... 494
        Kazurou HARADA and Koosuke HARAD

[Radio Communication]

 . On the Performance of TCM with Channel State Information in
   Frequency Flat Rayleigh Mobile Channels .......................... 501
        Carlos VALDEZ and Hirosuke YAMAMOTO

[Antennas and Propagation]

 . A Linearly-Polarized Slotted Waveguide Array Using
   Reflection-Cancelling Slot Pairs ................................ 511
        Kunio SAKAKIBARA, Jiro HIROKAWA, Makoto ANDO and Naohisa GOTO

[Electronic and Radio Applications]

 . A Multiple Sidelobe Canceller Switching over Auxiliary Antennas
   Arranged in Triangular Order .................................... 519
        Tetsuo KIRIMOTO, Yasuhiro HARASAWA and Atsushi SHIMADA

LETTER
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[Electronic and Radio Applications]

 . A Driving Test of a Small DC Motor with a Rectenna Array ........ 526
        Yoshiyuki FUJINO, Takeo ITO, Masaharu FUJITA, Nobuyuki KAYA,
        Hiroshi MATSUMOTO, Kazuaki KAWABATA, Hisashi SAWADA and 
        Toshihiro ONODERA

 . ABSTRACTS (Trans.IEICE, Vol.J77-B-‡T, J77-B-‡U, No.4 in Japanese)
            ........................................................ 529