Multiwavelength Optical Networks
by Thomas E. Stern, Krishna Bala, and George Ellinas
Multiwavelength Optical Networks provides complete coverage of the next level of communication networks-multiwavelength optical networks which meet the bandwidth demands of today's expanding networks. Renowned wireless veteran Thomas E. Stern teams with industry innovator Krishna Bala to deliver a comprehensive framework for understanding the technology, encompassing the concepts, methodology, and features of lightwave networks, such as physical layout, functionality, and algorithms. The book co...
Troubleshooting Optical Fiber Networks
by Duwayne R Anderson, Larry Johnson, and Florian G Bell
Troubleshooting Optical Fiber Networks offers comprehensive, state-of-the-art information about time-domain fiber-optic testing. Readers will gain an understanding of how to troubleshoot optical-fiber networks using an optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR), while learning the fundamental principles underlying the operation of these powerful testing instruments. From basic fiber optics and fiber testing, to detailed event-analysis techniques, this book covers the entire spectrum of time-domain...
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.A complete guide to smart grid networking and communications for energy engineersWith contributions from more than 30 experts, Smart Grid Infrastructure & Networking describes cutting-edge technologies for connecting the electricalpower infrastructure to modern, computerized communications networks. The book of...
This text provides a unified, cross disciplinary treatment of fiber optic networks. Rather than focusing on point-to-point fibre optic links, this reference looks at the more modern issues of fibre optic network links. Figures, problems, pictures of real devices, and diagrams of real systems supplement the text. The book is designed for communications research and development professionals, especially those involved with fibre optics.
Solitons in Optical Communications (Oxford Series in Optical and Imaging Sciences, #7)
by Akira Hasegawa and Yuji Kodama
Solitons are a fascinating topic for study and a major source of interest for potential application in optical communication. Possibly the first observation of a soliton occurred in 1838 and was made by a clerical gentleman riding a horse along a canal towpath. When a barge under tow came to a stop alongside him the bow wave did not stop, but continued to travel on its own for several miles with no change in shape. At the time this unusual phenomenon was not understood and remained unexplaine...
A strategic guide to the practical business applications of optical networking technologies Optical Networking A Wiley Tech Brief Optical networks are spreading outward from Internet backbones to cities to corporations and even to the home. Cities are in a strategic position to create a leading-edge optical infrastructure that will drive economic growth. Optical technologies can cost-effectively meet corporate bandwidth needs today and tomorrow, from optical Internet connections offering band...
Optical Interconnection (Optoelectronics Library S.)
Leading experts in the field introduce optical designs for handling the efficient routing of photonic information in this book.
Polymers reinforced with discontinuous fibers have a wide range of important applications such as in automotive parts and business machines. The fl ow that occurs during processing of these materials creates a complex but repeatable pattern of fi ber orientation, which plays a key role in achieving the desirable mechanical properties these materials can offer. The primary focus of this unique book is fiber orientation: how to describe it mathematically, how to measure it experimentally, and how...
This volume deals with a multifunctional plasma and tissue protein, fibronectin, which participates in many significant biological and pathophysiological actions, presenting the information concerning structure and describing the interactions of fibronectin with fibrinogen and fibrin.
This book provides a classroom-tested introduction to integrated and fiber optics. This text offers an in-depth treatment of integrated and fiber optics, providing graduate students, engineers, and scientists with a solid foundation of the principles, capabilities, uses, and limitations of guided-wave optic devices and systems. In addition to the transmission properties of dielectric waveguides and optical fibers, this book covers the principles of directional couplers, guided-wave gratings, arr...
Fiber-Based Optical Trapping & Manipulation
by Baojun Li and Hongbao Xin
Since its first report in 1970 by A. Ashkin, optical trapping and manipulation has been widely used in the interdisciplines of micro- and nano-photonics, biophotonics, biomedicine, etc. A conventional tool for optical trapping and manipulation is the conventional optical tweezer (COT), the core part of which is a free-space focused laser beam. However, manipulation with COTs has some limitations such as manipulation inflexibility, bulky structure, diffraction limitation for nanoparticles, and li...
This book provides an overview of several topics concerning the design, fabrication, and application of optical fibers, namely in the areas of communication systems, sensing, and photonic devices development. It consists of ten chapters. The first two chapters are concerned with different kinds of problems that can affect the performance of advanced optical fiber communication systems. Chapter One describes the polarisation-mode dispersion (PMD) phenomenon and discusses PMD-induced pulse broaden...
All-optical signal processing technology has been of high technical interest in the field of fibre-optic communication systems and networks, since it can provide the most powerful way to overcome the optical-to-electrical domain conversion-induced data traffic bottleneck. A variety of all-optical signal processing devices demonstrated to date are discussed in this book: for example, wavelength converters, optical demultiplexers, noise rejection filters, amplifiers, clock recovery subsystems, and...
Optical Polymers (ACS Symposium, #795)
This text examines the design and application of polymeric waveguides and fibers. It discusses new polymer systems designed to expand the efficiency, and the number of applications for polymer waveguides. Topics include graded-index materials, ruggedized systems and dye-doped systems, structure property relations, and new synthetic and processing techniques designed to minimize extrinsic losses.
Project Management Fundamentals For Telecommunications Engineering
by Demetrius Arris
Reliability of Optical Fiber Components, Devices, Systems and Networks (Proceedings of SPIE, Vol 4940)
by Hans G. Limberger and John M. Matthewson
Optical Fiber Telecommunications IV (Optics and Photonics, Pt. B)
Volume B is devoted to light wave systems and system impairments and compensation. Some of the topics include growth of the Internet, network architecture, undersea systems, high speed TDM transmission, cable TV systems, access networks, simulation tools, nonlinear effects, polarization mode dispersion, bandwidth formats, and more. This book is an excellent companion to "Optical Fiber Telecommunications IVA: Components" (March 2002, ISBN: 0-12-395172-0). It is fourth in a respected and comprehen...