Essentials of Modern Optical Fiber Communication

This is a concise introduction into optical fiber communication. It covers important aspects from the physics of optical wave propagation and amplification to the essentials of modulation formats and receivers. The combination of a solid coverage of necessary fundamental theory with an in-depth discussion of recent relevant research results enables the reader to design modern optical fiber communication systems. The book serves both graduate students and professionals. It includes many worked examples with solutions for lecturers.

For the second edition, Reinhold Noé made many changes and additions throughout the text so that this concise book presents the essentials of optical fiber communication in an easy readable and understandable way.

Focuses on the physical essentials of fiber communication systems Combines a solid coverage of the necessary fundamentals is with an in-depth discussion of recent relevant research results Includes many worked examples and problems and provides a solutions manual for lecturers Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Reinhold Noé is Professor for Optical Communication and High-Frequency Engineering at Paderborn University in Germany, since 1992. He has been working for Infineon (2001), Siemens (1988-1992) and Bellcore (1987-1988). He obtained Dr.-Ing. (1987) and Dipl.-Ing. (1984) degrees in Electrical Engineering from Technical University of Munich, Germany. With his coworkers, he received the Innovation Prize of the Land Northrhine-Westphalia in the category Innovation (2008), founded Novoptel GmbH (2010) and has authored about 300 journal and conference publications.

Inhalt

Introduction.- Optical waves in fibers and components.- Electromagnetic fundamentals .- Dielectric waveguides .- Polarization .- Linear electrooptic effect .- Mode coupling .- Differential group delay profiles .- Nonlinearities in optical fibers .- Optical fiber communication systems.- Standard systems with direct optical detection.- Advanced systems with direct detection.- Coherent optical transmission Coherent optical transmission.- References.- Index.