TY - BOOK AU - Keiser, Gerd TI - Optical fiber communications. SN - 0072321016 AV - TK5103.59.K44 PY - 2000/// CY - Boston PB - Mcgraw - Hill KW - Communication N1 - 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 ER -