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Fiber Optics Engineering

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. Mohammad Azadeh

    1. Source Photonics, Inc., Chatsworth, U.S.A.

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  • Provides an interdisciplinary approach to fiber optics
  • Emphasizes engineering and design perspectives, including insights from many years of design experience in the field of fiber optics
  • Includes simple pseudo-codes for simulation of electronic or optical circuits
  • Covers PON and FTTX (burst mode transceivers) which are relevant to the fast growing field of fiber-to-home. This sector is one of the biggest economical drives in the fiber optic industry, with little design material available for engineers
  • Addresses industrial trends and real world applications. The last few chapters provide a valuable reference point for those who want to apply the knowledge in an industrial design environment

Part of the book series: Optical Networks (OPNW)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Fiber Optic Communications: A Review

    • Mohammad Azadeh
    Pages 1-27

  3. Communication Networks

    • Mohammad Azadeh
    Pages 29-60

  4. Signal Characterization and Representation

    • Mohammad Azadeh
    Pages 61-93

  5. Semiconductor Lasers

    • Mohammad Azadeh
    Pages 95-125

  6. Optical Fibers

    • Mohammad Azadeh
    Pages 127-155

  7. PIN and APD Detectors

    • Mohammad Azadeh
    Pages 157-175

  8. Light Coupling and Passive Optical Devices

    • Mohammad Azadeh
    Pages 177-197

  9. Optical Transmitter Design

    • Mohammad Azadeh
    Pages 199-234

  10. Optical Receiver Design

    • Mohammad Azadeh
    Pages 235-264

  11. Reliability

    • Mohammad Azadeh
    Pages 265-296

  12. Test and Measurement

    • Mohammad Azadeh
    Pages 297-325

  13. Standards

    • Mohammad Azadeh
    Pages 327-359

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 361-374
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About this book

Within the past few decades, information technologies have been evolving at a tremendous rate, causing profound changes to our world and our ways of life. In particular, fiber optics has been playing an increasingly crucial role within the telecommunication revolution. Not only most long-distance links are fiber based, but optical fibers are increasingly approaching the individual end users, providing wide bandwidth links to support all kinds of data-intensive applications such as video, voice, and data services. As an engineering discipline, fiber optics is both fascinating and challenging. Fiber optics is an area that incorporates elements from a wide range of techno- gies including optics, microelectronics, quantum electronics, semiconductors, and networking. As a result of rapid changes in almost all of these areas, fiber optics is a fast evolving field. Therefore, the need for up-to-date texts that address this growing field from an interdisciplinary perspective persists. This book presents an overview of fiber optics from a practical, engineering perspective. Therefore, in addition to topics such as lasers, detectors, and optical fibers, several topics related to electronic circuits that generate, detect, and process the optical signals are covered. In other words, this book attempts to present fiber optics not so much in terms of a field of “optics” but more from the perspective of an engineering field within “optoelectronics.

Reviews

From the reviews: “This work by Azadeh … is a useful overview of the main aspects of fiber optic communication technology. The book consists of 12 chapters that can be grouped into three sections. … Chapters contain references for further reading … . Common acronyms are listed in an appendix. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and practitioners.” (O. Eknoyan, Choice, Vol. 47 (7), March, 2010)

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  • Source Photonics, Inc., Chatsworth, U.S.A.

    Mohammad Azadeh

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