title: Design of transparent optical networks by using novel quantum amplifiers and sources.
abstract: It is shown how the photon-number amplifier may be used to make, for either novel or conventional sources, an efficient direct-detection receiver and transceiver in a local-area network environment and how the parametric amplifier may be used similarly for a homodyne-detection receiver.
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Yuen