Understanding optical communications
By: Harry J.R. Dutton.
Series: The ITSO networking series
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 760
Subjects: Optical communications.; Optical fibers.; Optical interconnects.; Laser communication systems.; Local loop (Telephony); Wavelength division multiplexing.
Description: Optical fibre's low cost, accuracy and enormous capacity has revolutionized wide area communications, and fibre is increasingly the media of choice in MANs, campuses, buildings, LANs - soon, even homes. If you need to understand the state-of-the-art in optical communications, Understanding Optical Communications is the most complete, up-to-date technical overview available.

Understanding Optical Communications reviews key technical issues facing engineers as they extend fibre into new applications and markets. It presents an up-to-the-minute status report on WDM for LANs and MANs, including a rare glimpse at IBM's latest experimental systems. It points to the advanced research most likely to bear fruit: dark and spatial solitons, advanced fibres, plastic technologies, optical CDMA, TDM and packet-networks and more.

Whether you're building optical systems or planning for them, this is the briefing you've been looking for.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Figures; title: Tables; title: Preface; title: pt. 1. Theory and devices. ch. 1. Introduction; title: ch. 2. Optical fibre; title: ch. 3. Optical sources; title: ch. 4. Optical detectors; title: ch. 5. Optical devices; title: ch. 6. Fibre manufacture, cables and connectors; title: pt. 2. Systems. ch. 7. Optical communication systems; title: ch. 8. Optical link connections in electronic networks; title: ch. 9. Wavelength division multiplexing; title: ch. 10. Lightwave networks; title: ch. 11. Fibre in the (local) loop - FITL; title: ch. 12. Research directions; title: Appendix A. An introduction to semiconductors; title: Appendix B. An introduction to communications networks; title: Appendix C. Laser safety; title: Appendix D. Acronyms; title: Appendix E. Some useful facts; title: Appendix F. Special notices; title: Index.