Description
Book SynopsisThis book highlights the fundamental principles of optical fiber technology required for understanding modern high-capacity lightwave telecom networks. Such networks have become an indispensable part of society with applications ranging from simple web browsing to critical healthcare diagnosis and cloud computing. Since users expect these services to always be available, careful engineering is required in all technologies ranging from component development to network operations. To achieve this understanding, this book first presents a comprehensive treatment of various optical fiber structures and diverse photonic components used in optical fiber networks. Following this discussion are the fundamental design principles of digital and analog optical fiber transmission links. The concluding chapters present the architectures and performance characteristics of optical networks.
Table of ContentsChapter 1 – Overview of fiber optic telecommunications
Chapter 2 – Optical fiber structures and light guiding principles
Chapter 3 – Optical signal attenuation and dispersion
Chapter 4 – Light sources for telecommunications
Chapter 5 – Launching and coupling of optical power
Chapter 6 – Optical signal detection
Chapter 7 – Characteristics of optical receivers
Chapter 8 – Basic digital link designs
Chapter 9 – Analog fiber optic systems
Chapter 10 – Passive and active components for WDM
Chapter 11 – Amplifiers for optical signals
Chapter 12 – Nonlinear processes in optical fibers
Chapter 13 – Telecom networks
Chapter 14 – Network performance measuring and monitoring
