Understanding Optical Fiber Communications (Artech House Optoelectronics Library)
Publisher: Artech House Publishers
Published: March 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780890064788
Subjects: Communications engineering / telecommunications; Fibre optics; Technology & Industrial Arts; Fiber Optics Engineering; Technology; Science/Mathematics; Telecommunications; Optics; Optical communications; Fiber Optics
First sentence: Ever since animal life began on our planet, information has been essential to survival.
Table of contents: title: What Are Telecommunications? The global village -- Elements of telecommunications -- Information -- Signals -- Bandwidth -- Analog and digital systems -- The transmitter -- The receiver -- The analog receiver -- The digital receiver -- Channel attenuation and distortion -- Summary -- Why Do We Need Optics? The quest for bandwidth -- Electromagnetic waves -- Transmission with electromagnetic waves -- Summary -- What Are Optical Fibers? Introduction -- What is an optical fiber? -- Wave interference -- Attenuation and dispersion -- System implications -- Fiber manufacture and cabling -- Summary -- Preparing the Light. Introduction -- Light-emission processes -- Laser action -- The semiconductor laser -- Optical modulation -- Summary -- Seeing the light. Introduction -- The photodiode -- The avalanche photodiode -- Noise -- PINS or APDS? -- Detection demodulation -- Summary -- System design. Introduction -- The decibel -- A simple analog system -- A long-distance, high-bandwidth, digital system -- Trunk systems -- Networks -- Summary -- Advanced topics. Introduction -- Splitters, couplers, and switches -- Optical-fiber amplification and lasing -- Wavelength-division multiplexing -- Dispersion compensation -- Polarization-mode dispersion -- Nonlinear optics and solutions -- Summary -- The future --  Appendix A : Fourier synthesis -- Appendix B : the sampling theorem -- Appendix C : Shannon's theorem -- Appendix D : basic theory of laser action -- Appendix E : nonlinear optics - generation of radiated components at other frequencies and wavelengths.