Optical Fiber CommunicationsThe third edition of this popular text and reference book presents the fundamental principles for understanding and applying optical fiber technology to sophisticated modern telecommunication systems. Optical-fiber-based telecommunication networks have become a major information-transmission-system, with high capacity links encircling the globe in both terrestrial and undersea installations. Numerous passive and active optical devices within these links perform complex transmission and networking functions in the optical domain, such as signal amplification, restoration, routing, and switching. Along with the need to understand the functions of these devices comes the necessity to measure both component and network performance, and to model and stimulate the complex behavior of reliable high-capacity networks. |
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... glasses and plastics . The majority of fibers are made of glass consisting of either silica ( SiO2 ) or a silicate . The variety of available glass fibers ranges from high - loss glass fibers with large cores used for short ...
... glasses and plastics . The majority of fibers are made of glass consisting of either silica ( SiO2 ) or a silicate . The variety of available glass fibers ranges from high - loss glass fibers with large cores used for short ...
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... glass . The principal raw material for silica is sand . Glass composed of pure silica is referred to as either silica glass , fused silica , or vitreous silica . Some of its desirable properties are a resistance to deformation at ...
... glass . The principal raw material for silica is sand . Glass composed of pure silica is referred to as either silica glass , fused silica , or vitreous silica . Some of its desirable properties are a resistance to deformation at ...
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... glass films , a moving microwave reso- nator operating at 2.45 GHz generates a plasma inside the tube to activate the chemical reaction . This process deposits clear glass material directly on the tube wall ; there is no soot formation ...
... glass films , a moving microwave reso- nator operating at 2.45 GHz generates a plasma inside the tube to activate the chemical reaction . This process deposits clear glass material directly on the tube wall ; there is no soot formation ...
Contents
Overview of Optical Fiber Communications | 1 |
Structures Waveguiding and Fabrication | 25 |
Structures Waveguiding and Fabrication | 26 |
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analog attenuation avalanche photodiode band bandwidth cable carrier channel cladding communication components connector core coupler coupling data rate dB/km density detector device dispersion EDFA effects electric emission emitting energy equation example factor fiber end fiber optic FIGURE frequency function gain given by Eq glass graded-index fiber IEEE InGaAs input laser diode lasing layer length Lett light Lightwave Tech loss material Mb/s modal modal noise modes modulation multimode fibers multiplexing n₁ node numerical aperture operating optical amplifiers optical fiber optical output optical power optical signal optical source output power parameter percent photodetector photon pin photodiode power level propagation pulse quantum efficiency Quantum Electron radius range receiver refractive index region semiconductor shown in Fig signal-to-noise ratio single-mode fibers spectral width splice star coupler step-index fiber temperature transmission transmitted values voltage wave wavelength