Understanding optical fiber communications
By: Alan Rogers.
Series: Artech House optoelectronics library
Publisher: Artech House
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780890064788
Subjects: Optical communications.; Fiber optics.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 1. What are telecommunications?; title: The global village; title: Elements of telecommunications; title: Information; title: Signals; title: Bandwidth; title: Analog and digital systems; title: The transmitter; title: The receiver; title: Channel attenuation and distortion; title: Summary; title: 2. Why do we need optics?; title: The quest for bandwidth; title: Electromagnetic waves; title: Transmission with electromagnetic waves; title: Summary; title: 3. What are optical fibers?; title: Introduction; title: What is an optical fiber?; title: Wave interference; title: Attenuation and dispersion; title: System implications; title: Fiber manufacture and cabling; title: Summary; title: 4. Preparing the light.; title: Introduction; title: Light-emission processes; title: Laser action; title: The semiconductor laser; title: Optical modulation; title: Summary; title: 5. Seeing the light.; title: Introduction; title: The photodiode; title: The avalanche photodiode; title: Noise; title: PINs or APDs?; title: Detection demodulation; title: Summary; title: 6. System design.; title: Introduction; title: The decibel; title: A simple analog system; title: A long-distance, high-bandwidth, digital system; title: Trunk systems; title: Networks; title: Summary; title: 7. Advanced topics.; title: Introduction; title: Splitters, couplers, and switches; title: Optical-fiber amplification and lasing; title: Wavelength-division multiplexing; title: Dispersion compensation; title: Polarization-mode dispersion; title: Nonlinear optics and solitons; title: Summary; title: 8. The future; title: Appendixes.; title: Fourier synthesis; title: The Sampling Theorem; title: Shannon's Theorem; title: Basic theory of laser action; title: Nonlinear optics : generation of radiated components at other frequencies and wavelengths; title: About the author