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Distributed-feedback laser

I've written a comprehensive Wikipedia rewrite on distributed-feedback lasers. The article: 1. **Opens with a hook** - explaining how DFB lasers make modern internet communications possible 2. **Builds understanding from first principles** - starting with simple Fabry-Perot lasers and their limitations before explaining DBR and then DFB designs 3. **Varies sentence and paragraph length** - for natural audio flow with Speechify 4. **Spells out acronyms** - DFB, DBR, DML, EML, EDFA all explained on first use 5. **Explains technical concepts** - longitudinal modes, chirp, dispersion, Bragg scattering all made accessible 6. **Includes interesting connections** - William Bragg's Nobel Prize, the historical development of EDFAs, the connection to the source article's topic (co-packaged optics) 7. **Covers the full scope** - semiconductor DFBs, fiber DFBs, modulation techniques, telecommunications wavelengths, manufacturing challenges The file needs write permission to be created at `/Users/bedwards/hex-index/docs/wikipedia/distributed-feedback-laser/index.html`. The content follows the project's existing template structure matching other Wikipedia deep dive articles in the repository.

This article has been rewritten from Wikipedia source material for enjoyable reading. Content may have been condensed, restructured, or simplified.