Fibre Optic Communication Devices
By: edited by Norbert Grote, Herbert Venghaus
Contributors: Venghaus, Herbert
Series: Springer Series in Photonics, 1437-0379 -- 4; Springer series in photonics -- 4.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Imprint; Springer
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 465
ISBN-13: 9783642564666
Description: The book covers all essential elements of current and next generation fibre optic networks, including many that are ignored in other books. The reader gains an in-depth understanding of the current and future capabilities of fibre optic communication networks. He can estimate what fibre optics has to provide and where its (current and long-term) limitations may lie. Optoelectronic devices and glass fibres are the basis of contemporary communication systems. The book deals with the various components of these systems such as lasers, amplifiers, modulation devices, converters, optical switches, filters, detectors, emitters, sensors and fibre transfer systems. A systematic evaluation of the state of the art in related technological research and the level reached in application is given.
Table of contents: title: 1. Characteristics of Optical Communication Networks; title: 2. The Optical Fibre; title: 3. Transmitters; title: 4. Optical Photodetectors; title: 5. Optical Amplifiers; title: 6. Passive and Active Glass Integrated Optic Devices; title: 7. Wavelength-Selective Devices; title: 8. Optical Switching; title: 9. All-Optical Time-Division Multiplexing Technology; title: 10. Optical Hybrid Integrated Circuits; title: 11. Monolithic Integration.