Fiber Optic Communications (5th Edition)

Fiber Optic Communications (Fifth Edition)
By Joseph C. Palais

Marking the book's twentieth anniversary since its first edition appeared in 1984, this fifth edition presents a comprehensive and in-depth introduction to the basics of communicating using optical fiber transmission lines. Readers learn system design alongside the operating principles, characteristics, and applications of the components that make up fiber-optic systems, requiring only a minimal background in electronics and mathematics — appropriate background material on optics, electronics, and communications is introduced within the text as needed. As the author notes, the fundamentals of fiber optics haven't changed, but the insatiable demand for greater bandwidth over the past two decades made this edition necessary, incorporating the many new components and system architectures added to the fiber-optic designer's toolkit since the fourth edition, including improved fibers, non-zero dispersion-shifted fibers, Raman and erbium-doped waveguide amplifiers, arrayed waveguide gratings, and tunable light sources and filters, alongside expanded coverage of wavelength-division multiplexing and external modulation.

Topics commonly covered include:

• Fiber optic communications systems overview
• Optics review and lightwave fundamentals
• Optical fibers, light sources, and light detectors
• Couplers and distribution networks
• Modulation formats and noise effects on message quality
• System design and link analysis
• Wavelength-division multiplexing (dense and coarse)
• Optical time-division multiplexing
• Polarization mode dispersion and dispersion compensation

Key features:

• New problems, figures, worked examples, and an updated bibliography for this edition
• Introductory in scope, assuming no prior background in fiber optics
• Numerous illustrations and worked examples throughout
• Comprehensive coverage from component-level detail through full system design
• Long-standing, widely used standard text across five editions and twenty years of continuous revision

Perfect for:

• Electrical and communications engineering students taking their first fiber optics course
• Students needing both device-level and system-level understanding of fiber communications
• Practicing engineers working with optical fiber transmission systems
• Faculty teaching an introductory optical/fiber communications course

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