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Fiber Optic Communications (5th Edition)
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by Joseph C. Palais
Sales Rank: 504360
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Discount: 9 %
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Hardcover: 456 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 5 edition September 20, 2004
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0130085103
ISBN-13: 978-0130085108
Product Dimensions:
9.3 x 7.2 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
Book Description
Provides a comprehensive and in-depth introduction to the basics of communicating with optical fiber transmission lines, requiring only a minimal background in electronics and mathematics. Covers essential topics, including system design, operating principles, characteristics, and applications of components that comprise fiber-optic systems. The book contains numerous illustrations and worked examples and provides a periodical listing at the end of the book, including 69 new books. The fourth edition of Fiber Optic Communications has been revised to include the latest developments in fiber optics as well as coverage of a variety of new topics. It also presents expanded discussions of many additional topics. A valuable reference book on fiber optics communications for professionals in a variety of jobs, including engineers, fiber design engineers, electrical engineers, and electronic technicians, among others.
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Back Cover Copy
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.
Customer Reviews & Comments
This review is from: Fiber Optic Communications (4th Edition) (Hardcover)
If you are looking for a theoretical book concerning basic understanding of fiber optics and fiber optic communication, this is a good book for you. This book contains basic mathematics and physics concepts of the fiber optics. I think this book is suitable for researchers and anybody who is interested in the fiber optics from physics point of view. But if you are looking for a basic understanding non-mathematical of fiber optics and fiber optic communication, this is definitely not a good book for you. I could say that this book is for graduate students only (toward their master or doctoral degree) with already quite strong understanding of theoretical light physics. If you are students with little or no understanding of such theory, I suggest that you look for other books. This book covers a quite complete of basic understanding of fiber optics and fiber optic communications. Although this book is a good introduction toward mathematics and physics concepts, it does not cover the basic understanding deep enough. I could say that there are a lot of essential understanding were left unexplained. Like I said before that this book is perfect for somebody that has already quite strong understanding of theoretical light physics.
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