Contents
1,introduction
1.1 historical perspective
1.2 basic concepts
1.3 optical communication systems
1.4 lightwave system components
2,optical fibers
2.1 geometrical-optics description
2.2 wave propagation
2.3 dispersion in single-mode fibers
2.4 dispersion-induced limitations
2.5 fiber losses
2.6 nonlinear optical effects
2.7 fiber manufacturing
3,optical transmitters
3.1 basic concepts
3.2 light-emitting diodes
3.3 semiconductor lasers
3.4 control of longitudinal modes
3.5 laser characteristics
3.6 transmitter design
4,optical receivers
4.1 basic concepts
4.2 common photodetectors
4.3 receiver design
4.4 receiver noise
4.5 receiver sensitivity
4.6 sensitivity degradation
4.7 receiver performance
5,lightwave systems
5.1 system architectures
5.2 design guidelines
5.3 long-haul systems
5.4 sources of power penalty
5.5 comprter-aided design
6,optical amplifiers
6.1 basic concepts
6.2 semiconductor optical amplifiers
6.3 raman amplifiers
6.4 erbium-doped fiber amplifiers
6.5 system applications
7,dispersion management
7.1 need for dispersion management
7.2 precompensation schemes
7.3 postcompensation techniques
7.4 optical filters
7.5 optical filters
7.6 fiber bragg gratings
7.7 optical phase conjugation
7.8 long-haul lightwave systems
7.9 high-capacity systems
8,multichannel systems
8.1 WDM lightwave systems
8.2 WDM components
8.3 system performance issues
8.4 time division multiplexing
8.5 subcarrier multiplexing
8.6 code division multiplexing
9,soliton systems
9.1 fiber solitons
9.2 soliton based communications
9.3 loss managed solitons
9.4 dispersion managed solitons
9.5 impact of amplifier noise
9.6 high speed soliton systems
9.7 WDMsoliton systems
10,coherent lightwave systems
10.1 basic concepts
10.2 modulation formats
10.3 demodulation formats
10.4 bit error rate
10.5 sensitivity degradation
10.6 system performance
appendixA system of units
appendixB acronyms
appendixC general formula for pulse broadening
appendixD ultimate system capacity
appendixE sofyware package
index