Understanding Optical Fiber Communications

Here is a book which makes modern optical-fiber communication systems easy to understand. It gives you an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of the principles and operation of present-day optical-fiber communications, without the use of advanced mathematics.

Here is a book which makes modern optical-fiber communication systems easy to understand. It gives you an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of the principles and operation of present-day optical-fiber communications, without the use of advanced mathematics.

Starting with the nature of information, it goes on to explain all the ideas behind information measurement, signals, digital coding, modulation, optical transmission along fibers, optical detectors, demodulation, system design, networking and non-linear optics. A final chapter, on more advanced topics, brings you up-to-date with recent developments. This is an ideal introductory-level book for sales and marketing personnel, business managers in telecommunications, technicians and college or university students interested in the ideas behind the telecommunications medium of the future. No more than a basic knowledge of physics is required.

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By relegating the underlying mathematics to the appendices, Rogers (electronics, King's College, London) provides an accessible introduction to a technology that is ratcheting up the flood of information available both to techies and the rest of us whom the author believes should be informed about what those underground installations are all about. With figures and diagrams, he explains the nature and measure of information; the nature of light and how it passes down optical fibers; the laser sources and receivers of light; and the optical amplifiers, modulators, and switches that control the light. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Alan J. Rogers is professor of Electronics in the Department of Electronic Engineering at King's College London. He has published well over 180 papers in learned journals and has initiated 11 patents. Dr. Rogers holds a double first in the Natural Sciences Tripos from Cambridge University, and a Ph.D. in radio astronomy and space physics from University College London. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, and a Senior Member of the Institution of Electronic and Electrical Engineers.