Description:
The fifth edition of Fiber Optic Communications by Joseph C. Palais marks the book's twentieth anniversary. In the 20 years since the first edition of the book was published, fiber optics systems have become more flexible and less costly and information capacity and transmission length have increased. This edition includes the many new and improved components and system architectures that have been added to the fiber-optic-communications designer's tool kit.
New component discussions describe
Improved fibers that more fully utilize the optical spectrum
Non-zero dispersion shifted fibers
Graded-index polymer fibers
Raman amplifiers
Erbium-doped waveguide amplifiers
Arrayed waveguide gratings
Electroabsorption modulators
Optical micro-electro-mechanical (MEMs) components
Dispersion compensators
Tunable light sources
Tunable filters
Small-form-factor connectors
Non-adhesive splices Expanded coverage of system strategies and considerations include
Optical time-division multiplexing
Dense and coarse wavelength-division multiplexing
Polarization mode dispersion
External modulation
The fifth edition also includes new problems, new figures, new worked examples, and an updated bibliography.
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