Overview

The ""Information Super Highway"" concept has gained great popularity recently. If the super highway is to be realized it will almost certainly be built mainly using optical fibres. This book explores optical network technology, and is aimed at engineers, managers and graduate students in telecoms and optoelectronics.

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Author:   D.W. Smith
Publisher:   Chapman and Hall
Imprint:   Chapman and Hall
Edition:   1994 ed.
Volume:   5
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.470kg
ISBN:  

9780412601200

ISBN 10:   0412601206
Pages:   330
Publication Date:   30 November 1994
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Nerves of glass. Opportunities for advanced optical technology in access networks. Future core networks using novel but simple optical technology. Optical time division multiplexing for future high-capacity network applications. Impact of new optical technology on spectrally sliced access and data networks. Optical wireless local area networks - enabling technologies. Quantum cryptography and secure optical communications. Microwave and millimetre-wave radio fibre. Novel components for optical switching. Nonlinear loop mirror devices and applications. Analysis of an optically amplified two-section link specification incorporating an erbium-doped fibre amplifier. Towards a practical 1.3um optical fibre amplifier. Visible fibre lasers. Wavelength and time-multiplexing devices on planar silica motherboards. Light-sensitive optical fibres and planar waveguides. New applications of optics from modern computer design methods. Index.

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The BT edited book is...comprehensive and would be my overall choice, emphasizing as it does the underpinning physical principles and taking a forward-looking view of the field...a team at BT whose expertise in the field cannot be challenged. - Optics and Laser Technology; Truly a book to widen horizons - Optical World

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