Optical Fiber Telecommunications V (A&B) is the fifth in a series that has chronicled the progress in the research and development of lightwave communications since the early 1970s. Written by active authorities from academia and industry, this edition not only brings a fresh look to many essential topics but also focuses on network management and services. Using high bandwidth in a cost-effective manner for the development of customer applications is a central theme. This book is ideal for R&D engineers and managers, optical systems implementers, university researchers and students, network operators, and the investment community.
Volume (A) is devoted to components and subsystems, including: semiconductor lasers, modulators, photodetectors, integrated photonic circuits, photonic crystals, specialty fibers, polarization-mode dispersion, electronic signal processing, MEMS, nonlinear optical signal processing, and quantum information technologies. Volume (B) is devoted to systems and networks, including: advanced modulation formats, coherent systems, time-multiplexed systems, performance monitoring, reconfigurable add-drop multiplexers, Ethernet technologies, broadband access and services, metro networks, long-haul transmission, optical switching, microwave photonics, computer interconnections, and simulation tools.
Review
For nearly three decades, the OFT series has served as the comprehensive primary resource covering progress in the science and technology of optical fiber telecom. It has been essential for the bookshelves of scientists and engineers active in the field. OFT V provides updates on considerable progress in established disciplines, as well as introductions to new topics. [OFT V]… generates a value that is even higher than that of the sum of its chapters.
Herwig Kogelnik, Vice President Adjunct, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
… is a comprehensive and authoritative coverage of the latest research advances and development trends in the field, while upholding the highest standards of scholarly exposition and practical perspective. The wealth of material on innovative technologies and advanced applications will serve as an important and timely information resource … for the advancement of telecommunications world-wide.
Leping Wei, CTO, China Telecom
Lightwave systems constitute the nervous system of the industrial world and continue to evolve as innovations are introduced with enormous economic impact. The editors have very skillfully brought together authoritative chapters written by well known experts, encompassing new technologies that are enabling the rapid advances to their commercial deployment. This is a “must-have” book …
Henry Kressel, Managing Director, Warburg Pincus
Anyone … will want to have a copy of this latest edition … which carries on the tradition of bringing together a wonderful collection of authors, world-renowned experts all, to discuss the most important areas of this rapidly changing technology. … this volume has evolved to include, not only updates of previous topics, but also considerably more discussion of networks and network services.
Donald B. Keck, Corning, Inc. (retired)
Much has happened since the last edition. ROADM-based metro networks are being widely deployed, optical monitoring is becoming essential, new modulation formats are enabling efficient bandwidth utilization, and deployed FTTH has 1 Gbit/s shared rates. All these … are expertly reviewed by an impressive set of authors, each highly active, well-known and respected. In all … a timely, highly valuable, well-written and comprehensive view presented by the world’s experts.
Rod C. Alferness, Chief Scientist, Bell Labs Research, Alcatel-Lucent
Book Details
- Hardcover: 928 pages
- Publisher: Academic Press; 5 edition (February 15, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0123741726
- ISBN-13: 978-0123741721
- File Size: 18.9 MiB
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