Название: Optical Fiber Communications: Principles and Applications
Автор: T.L. Singal
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2017
Страниц: 474
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 12.8 MB

Beginning with an overview of historical development, the electromagnetic spectrum, and optical power basics, this book offers an in-depth discussion of optic receivers, optical transmitters and amplifiers. The text discusses attenuation, transmission losses, optical sources such as semiconductor light emitting diodes, and lasers, providing several dispersion-management schemes that restore the amplified signal to its original state. Topics are discussed in a structured manner, with definitions, explanations, examples, illustrations, and informative facts. Extensive pedagogical features, such as numerical problems, review questions, multiple choice questions, and student-focussed learning objectives, are also provided. Mathematical derivations and geometrical representations are included where necessary.

The emergence of fiber optics as a dominant technology for long-distance broadband services is discussed in this book. The basic configuration of optical fiber communication system comprises of an information source, a voltage-to-current converter, an optical source, a channel coupler, an optical fiber channel, an optical repeater, an optoelectronic detector, an electronic receiver, and the output device. The need, advantages, disadvantages, and wide range of applications of optical fiber communication are covered so as to generate interest to know more about the subject in subsequent chapters.

Undergraduate and graduate students of electronics and communication engineering, and optical fibre communications, in particular, will discover here a textbook tailor-made for their needs.