Optical fiber communications : principles and practice - Senior, John M., 1951-; Jamro, M. Yousif (Harlow, England ; New York : Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 2009)
1. Introduction -- 2. Optical fiber waveguides -- 3. Transmission characteristics of optical fibers -- 4. Optical fibers and cables -- 5. Optical fiber connection: joints and couplers and isolators -- 6. Optical sources 1: the laser -- 7. Optical sources 2: the light emitting diode -- 8. Optical detectors -- 9. Direct detection receiver performance considerations -- 10. Optical amplification, wavelength conversion and regeneration -- 11. Integrated Optics and Photonics -- 12. Optical fiber systems 1: intensity modulation/direct detection -- 13. Optical Fiber Systems 2: coherent and phase modulated -- 14. Optical fiber measurements -- 15. Optical Networks -- Appendix A The field relations in a planar guide -- Appendix B Gaussian pulse response -- Appendix C Variance of a random variable -- Appendix D Variance of the sum of independent random variables -- Appendix E Closed loop transfer function for the transimpedance amplifier -- Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Optical communications; Fiber optics