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Understanding optical communications

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Optical fibre's low cost, accuracy and enormous capacity has revolutionized wide area communications, and fibre is increasingly the media of choice in MANs, campuses, buildings, LANs - soon, even homes. If you need to understand the state-of-the-art in optical communications, Understanding Optical Communications is the most complete, up-to-date technical overview available.

Understanding Optical Communications reviews key technical issues facing engineers as they extend fibre into new applications and markets. It presents an up-to-the-minute status report on WDM for LANs and MANs, including a rare glimpse at IBM's latest experimental systems. It points to the advanced research most likely to bear fruit: dark and spatial solitons, advanced fibres, plastic technologies, optical CDMA, TDM and packet-networks and more.

Whether you're building optical systems or planning for them, this is the briefing you've been looking for.

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Publisher
Prentice Hall PTR
Language
English
Pages
760

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1998, Prentice Hall PTR
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Table of Contents

Figures
Tables
Preface
pt. 1. Theory and devices. ch. 1. Introduction
ch. 2. Optical fibre
ch. 3. Optical sources
ch. 4. Optical detectors
ch. 5. Optical devices
ch. 6. Fibre manufacture, cables and connectors
pt. 2. Systems. ch. 7. Optical communication systems
ch. 8. Optical link connections in electronic networks
ch. 9. Wavelength division multiplexing
ch. 10. Lightwave networks
ch. 11. Fibre in the (local) loop - FITL
ch. 12. Research directions
Appendix A. An introduction to semiconductors
Appendix B. An introduction to communications networks
Appendix C. Laser safety
Appendix D. Acronyms
Appendix E. Some useful facts
Appendix F. Special notices
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Upper Saddle River, N.J
Series
The ITSO networking series

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
621.382/7
Library of Congress
TK5103.59 .D88 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxvi, 760 p. :
Number of pages
760

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL79100M
ISBN 10
0130201413
LCCN
99183122
OCLC/WorldCat
40456249, 90024696
LibraryThing
1761402
Goodreads
1018662

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL677086W

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