The Handbook of Optical Communication Networks (Electrical Engineering Handbook)
Contributors: Mohammad Ilyas (Editor); Hussein T. Mouftah (Editor)
Publisher: CRC; CRC Press
Published: April 14, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780849313332
Subjects: Applied optics; Communications engineering / telecommunications; Optics; Optical Communication Engineering; Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Telecommunications; Science/Mathematics; Fiber Optics; Networking - General; Science / Optics; Engineering - Electrical & Electronic; Optical communications
First sentence: The focus of this chapter is to present technological advances, promising architectures, and exciting research issues in designing and operating next-generation optical wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) networks, which are scalable and flexible.