Book description
The Fiber Optic Reference Guide offers readers a solid understanding of the principles of fiber optic technology, especially as it relates to telecommunications, from its early days to developing future trends. Using a minimum of jargon and a wealth of illustrations, this book provides the underlying principles of fiber optics as well as essential practical applications. The third edition is updated to include expanded sections on light emitters, semiconductor optical amplifiers, Bragg gratings, and more systems design considerations.Fiber optics plays a key role in communications, as well as in broadcast and cable systems. Engineers working with fiber optics as well as newcomers to the industry will find the third edition of this reference guide invaluable. It will help the reader develop a solid understanding of the underlying principles of this rapidly changing technology as well as its essential practical applications. The text is thoroughly indexed and illustrated.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Chapter 1 A History of Fiber Optic Technology
- Chapter 2 Fiber Optic Fundamentals
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Chapter 3 Optical Fiber
- Fiber Era's
- Manufacture of Optical Fiber
- Principles of Operation
- Multimode Fiber
- Single-Mode Fiber
- Attenuation
- Fiber RIN
- Multimode Dispersion
- Chromatic Dispersion
- Polarization Mode Dispersion
- Dispersion Management
- Fiber Nonlinearities
- Selecting Fiber Types
- Chapter 4 Fiber Optic Cables
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Chapter 5 Light Emitters
- Theory of Operation
- Light Emitter Performance Characteristics
- Spectral Characteristics
- Light-Emitting Diodes
- Laser Diodes
- VCSEL's
- Chirp
- Backreflection
- Temperature Effects on Lasers
- Peltier Coolers
- High Power and CW Lasers
- DWDM Lasers
- Microelectromechanical Systems
- Tunable Lasers
- DFB Lasers
- Laser Safety
- Comparison of LED's and Laser Diodes
- Light Emitters as Detectors
- Chapter 6 Light Detectors
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Chapter 7 Other Active Devices
- Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers
- Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers
- Raman Amplifiers
- External Modulators
- Wavelength Converters
- Wavelength Locker
- Chapter 8 Interconnection Devices
- Chapter 9 Other Passive Devices
- Chapter 10 System Design Considerations
- Chapter 11 Fiber Optic Applications
- Chapter 12 Video Over Fiber
- Chapter 13 Data Over Fiber
- Chapter 14 Pushing Fiber to the Limits
- Chapter 15 Testing ABCDE Measurement Techniques
- Chapter 16 Future Trends
- Appendix A General Reference Material
- Appendix B Glossary of Terms
- Appendix C Fiber Optic Symbols
- Appendix D Industrial, Telcordia ABCDE ITU Standards
- Appendix E Societies, Conference Sponsors ABCDE Trade Magazines
- Index
Product information
- Title: Fiber Optic Reference Guide, 3rd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2002
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781136028175
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