Fiber Optics

1. Front Matter

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2. Technology

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   2. Technology Overview

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   3. Optical Fibers

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   4. Optical Sources and Transmitters

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   5. Optical Detectors and Receivers

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      Pages 71-106

   6. Optical Components

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      Pages 107-118

   7. System Phenomenology

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3. Applications

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   2. Telecommunications Trunking

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      Pages 129-161

   3. Data Links

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   4. Local Area Networks

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      Pages 175-193

   5. Analog Links for Video, Telemetry, i.f. and r.f. Remoting

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      Pages 194-215

   6. Broadband Networks

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   7. Sensing Systems

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   8. System Measurements

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   9. Emerging Technology and Applications

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4. Back Matter

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This book is an outgrowth of a course given by the author for people in industry, government, and universities wishing to understand the implica­ tions of emerging optical fiber technology, and how this technology can be applied to their specific information transport and sensing system needs. The course, in turn, is an outgrowth of 15 exciting years during which the author participated in the research and development, as well as in the application, of fiber technology. The aim of this book is to provide the reader with a working knowledge of the components and subsystems which make up fiber systems and of a wide variety of implemented and proposed applications for fiber technology. The book is directed primarily at those who would be users, as opposed to developers, of the technology. The first half of this book is an overview of components and subsys­ tems including fibers, connectors, cables, sources, detectors, receivers, transmitters, and miscellaneous components. The goal is to familiarize the reader with the properties of these components and subsystems to the extent necessary to understand their potential applications and limitations.

• analog
• communication
• fiber optics
• Local Area Network
• network
• optics
• Potential
• receiver
• telecommunications

• Bell Communications Research, Red Bank, USA

  Stewart D. Personick

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