Optical fiber communications. /
Gerd Keiser
- Boston: Mcgraw - Hill, 2000.
- xxi, 602 p.: ill.; 24cm.
Includes Index.
Contents: Overview of optical fiber communications -- Optical fibers: structures, waveguiding, and fabrication -- Signal degradation in optical fibers -- Optical sources -- Power launching and coupling -- Photodetors -- Optical river operation -- Digital transmission systems -- Analog systems -- WDM concepts and components -- Optical amplifiers -- Optical networks -- Measurements -- Appendixes A: International system of units -- B: Useful mathematics relations -- C: Bessel functions -- D: Decibels -- E: Topics from communication theory -- F: Factors contributing to dispersion.