Fiber Optic Communications - Hardcover

Palais, Joseph C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0138954429 ISBN 13: 9780138954420

Publisher: Pearson, 1998

Synopsis

Appropriate for undergraduate Electrical Engineering and Electronics Technology courses covering Fiber Optics.

Provides a comprehensive and in-depth introduction to the basics of communicating with optical fiber transmission lines. Readers will learn system design and the operating principles, characteristics, and applications of the components of fiber optic systems.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The fifth edition of Fiber Optic Communications by Joseph C. Palais marks the book's twentieth anniversary. In the 20 years since the first edition of the book was published, fiber optics systems have become more flexible and less costly and information capacity and transmission length have increased. This edition includes the many new and improved components and system architectures that have been added to the fiber-optic-communications designer's tool kit.

New component discussions describe

• Improved fibers that more fully utilize the optical spectrum
• Non-zero dispersion shifted fibers
• Graded-index polymer fibers
• Raman amplifiers
• Erbium-doped waveguide amplifiers
• Arrayed waveguide gratings
• Electroabsorption modulators
• Optical micro-electro-mechanical (MEMs) components
• Dispersion compensators
• Tunable light sources
• Tunable filters
• Small-form-factor connectors
• Non-adhesive splices

Expanded coverage of system strategies and considerations include

• Optical time-division multiplexing
• Dense and coarse wavelength-division multiplexing
• Polarization mode dispersion
• External modulation

The fifth edition also includes new problems, new figures, new worked examples, and an updated bibliography.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0138954429
• ISBN 13: 9780138954420
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 342