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This one-of-a-kind book makes modern optical fiber communication systems easy to understand. It provides an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of the principles and operation of present-day optical fiber communications, without the use of advanced mathematics. Starting with the nature of information, Understanding Optical Fiber Communications goes on to clearly explain the ideas behind information measurement, signals and bandwidth, digital coding, modulation, optical transmission along fibers, optical detectors, demodulation, system design, networking, and nonlinear optics. A final chapter on more advanced topics brings professionals up to date with recent developments. This is an ideal introductory-level book for sales and marketing personnel, business managers in telecommunications, technicians, and students interested in the ideas behind the telecommunications medium of the future. - Back cover.

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Artech House
Language
English
Pages
216

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Table of Contents

1. What are telecommunications?
The global village
Elements of telecommunications
Information
Signals
Bandwidth
Analog and digital systems
The transmitter
The receiver
Channel attenuation and distortion
Summary
2. Why do we need optics?
The quest for bandwidth
Electromagnetic waves
Transmission with electromagnetic waves
Summary
3. What are optical fibers?
Introduction
What is an optical fiber?
Wave interference
Attenuation and dispersion
System implications
Fiber manufacture and cabling
Summary
4. Preparing the light.
Introduction
Light-emission processes
Laser action
The semiconductor laser
Optical modulation
Summary
5. Seeing the light.
Introduction
The photodiode
The avalanche photodiode
Noise
PINs or APDs?
Detection demodulation
Summary
6. System design.
Introduction
The decibel
A simple analog system
A long-distance, high-bandwidth, digital system
Trunk systems
Networks
Summary
7. Advanced topics.
Introduction
Splitters, couplers, and switches
Optical-fiber amplification and lasing
Wavelength-division multiplexing
Dispersion compensation
Polarization-mode dispersion
Nonlinear optics and solitons
Summary
8. The future
Appendixes.
Fourier synthesis
The Sampling Theorem
Shannon's Theorem
Basic theory of laser action
Nonlinear optics : generation of radiated components at other frequencies and wavelengths
About the author

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Published in
Boston, MA
Series
Artech House optoelectronics library

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
621.382/7
Library of Congress
TK5103.59 .R64 2001, TK 5103.59 R64 2001

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xii, 216 p.
Number of pages
216
Dimensions
23 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22414753M
Internet Archive
understandingopt0000roge
ISBN 10
0890064784
ISBN 13
9780890064788
LCCN
00068930
Library Thing
6309385

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