Description
High-capacity telecommunication networks based on optical fiber technology 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. This expanded fifth edition presents the fundamental principles for understanding and applying these technologies to modern lightwave networks.
Features
Comprehensive treatment of optical fibers and photonic components
Design principles of digital and analog optical fiber transmission links
Principles and components for wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM)
Architectures and performance characteristics of optical networks
New To This Edition
New sections on * Descriptions and photos of optical transmitters * Descriptions and photos of optical connectors * Cable structures and installation procedures * Advanced high-speed modulation techniques * Radio-over-fiber technologies * Passive optical networks/FTTP networks * Network performance monitoring and testing
Expanded coverage of power penalties, 10-to-100-Gb/s links, WDM devices, WDM network examples
Pedagogical enhancements such as drill problems and answers to selected problems
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Overview of Optical Fiber Communications
Chapter 2 Optical Fibers: Structures, Waveguiding, and Fabrication
Chapter 3 Attenuation and Dispersion
Chapter 4 Optical Sources
Chapter 5 Power Launching and Coupling
Chapter 6 Photodetectors
Chapter 7 Optical Receiver Operation
Chapter 8 Digital Links
Chapter 9 Analog Links
Chapter 10 WDM Concepts and Components
Chapter 11 Optical Amplifiers
Chapter 12 Nonlinear Effects
Chapter 13 Optical Networks
Chapter 14 Performance Measurement and Monitoring