Fiber Optics Engineering / Edition 1

by Mohammad Azadeh

Overview

Within the past few decades, information technologies have been evolving at a tremendous rate, causing profound changes to our world and our ways of life. In particular, fiber optics has been playing an increasingly crucial role within the telecommunication revolution. Not only most long-distance links are fiber based, but optical fibers are increasingly approaching the individual end users, providing wide bandwidth links to support all kinds of data-intensive applications such as video, voice, and data services. As an engineering discipline, fiber optics is both fascinating and challenging. Fiber optics is an area that incorporates elements from a wide range of techno- gies including optics, microelectronics, quantum electronics, semiconductors, and networking. As a result of rapid changes in almost all of these areas, fiber optics is a fast evolving field. Therefore, the need for up-to-date texts that address this growing field from an interdisciplinary perspective persists. This book presents an overview of fiber optics from a practical, engineering perspective. Therefore, in addition to topics such as lasers, detectors, and optical fibers, several topics related to electronic circuits that generate, detect, and process the optical signals are covered. In other words, this book attempts to present fiber optics not so much in terms of a field of “optics” but more from the perspective of an engineering field within “optoelectronics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441903037
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	08/17/2009
Series:	Optical Networks
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.20(d)

Table of Contents

Fiber Optic Communications: A Review.- Communication Networks.- Signal Characterization and Representation.- Semiconductor Lasers.- Optical Fibers.- PIN and APD Detectors.- Light Coupling and Passive Optical Devices.- Optical Transmitter Design.- Optical Receiver Design.- Reliability.- Test and Measurement.- Standards.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews: “This work by Azadeh … is a useful overview of the main aspects of fiber optic communication technology. The book consists of 12 chapters that can be grouped into three sections. … Chapters contain references for further reading … . Common acronyms are listed in an appendix. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and practitioners.” (O. Eknoyan, Choice, Vol. 47 (7), March, 2010)

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