Fiber Optics Handbook : Fiber, Devices and Systems for Optical Communications

With their proven ability to provide both enormous speed and capacity, fiber optic networks have become the hands-down technology favorite for capacity-intensive broadband access applications. Business Week estimates the current fiber-optic networking market at an incredible $16.1 billion. Understanding fiber optical communications engineering has become must know information for engineers, engineering managers, researchers, and students. This authoritative reference, culled from the pages of the OSA's renowned Handbook of Optics, offers the combined expertise of a team of international experts to give you the answers you need to ride the fiber optics wave to success. Prepared under the auspices of the Optical Society of America, this book includes detailed, expert coverage of every essential topic in what has become the hottest field in telecom : WDM (Wave Division Multiplexing) and DWDM (Dense Wave Multiplexing) , optical fiber amplifiers , solitrons , fiber optic communications links , tapered-fiber couplers, MUX, and deMUX , optical time-division multiplexed communications networks , infrared fibers , optical fiber sensors , fiber-optic communications standards , sources, modulators, and detectors and much more.

Optical fibers and fiber-optic communications. Optical fiber communication technology and system overview. Nonlinear effects in optical fibers. Sources, modulators, and detectors for fiber-optic communication systems. Optical fiber amplifiers. Fiber-optic communication links (Telecom, Datacom, and Analog). Solitons in optical fiber communication systems. Tapered-fiber couplers, MUX and deMUX. Fiber Bragg gratings. Micro-optics-based components for networking. Semiconductor optical amplifiers and wavelength conversion. Optical time-division multiplexed communication networks. Wavelength domain multiplexed (WDM) fiber-optic communication networks. Infrared fibers. Optical fiber sensors. Fiber-optic communication standards. Index.