Optical Fiber Communication Systems

This comprehensive book makes the important technologies and mathematical concepts behind today's optical communications systems accessible and understandable to practicing and future electrical and communication engineers.

This comprehensive book makes the important technologies and mathematical concepts behind today's optical communications systems accessible and understandable to practicing and future electrical and communication engineers.

The first volume on the subject written with the needs of today's engineer in mind, the book provides the practical details and mathematical tools necessary to analyze and design optical fiber systems. Covering optical fiber communications from the systems level, it gives invaluable insight into the characteristics, applications, advantages, and limitations of new associated OF technologies: optical amplifiers, coherent systems, solitons, and multichannel optical systems.

Featuring nearly 400 figures, over 900 equations, convenient lists of symbols, and helpful chapter outlines, this book is a valuable professional reference and an outstanding text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level electrical engineering students.

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This textbook, designed for electrical engineering students specializing in communication systems engineering, explains the important technologies and mathematical concepts behind today's optical communication systems and provides the mathematical tools necessary to analyze and design optical fiber systems. Topics include basic OF systems to the characteristics, applications, advantages, and limitations of optical amplifiers, solitons, WDM, multichannel systems, and coherent detection. Includes some 400 figures and over 1,000 equations, as well as problems in each chapter that can be used for homework assignments. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Sergio Benedetto is a professor of Trasmissione Numerica at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, where he also earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering. Dr. Benedetto is currently researching coding theory and digital communications over optical fibers.

Alan Willner is a professor at the University of Southern California and is a former postdoctoral member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He earned his B.A. in Physics from Yeshiva University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Columbia University.