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Part 1: FIBER OPTICS

By Michael Bass (ed)
From Handbook of Optics: Fiber Optics and Nonlinear Optics, Volume IV, Second Edition

Casimer DeCusatis Part Editor

IBM Corporation
Poughkeepsie, New York

Guifang Li Part Editor

School of Optics/The Center for Research and Education
in Optics and Lasers (CREOL), University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida

Chapter 1: OPTICAL FIBERS AND FIBER-OPTIC COMMUNICATIONS
Chapter 2: OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY AND SYSTEM OVERVIEW
Chapter 3: NONLINEAR EFFECTS IN OPTICAL FIBERS
Chapter 4: SOURCES, MODULATORS, AND DETECTORS FOR FIBER-OPTIC COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
Chapter 5: OPTICAL FIBER AMPLIFIERS
Chapter 6: FIBER-OPTIC COMMUNICATION LINKS (TELECOM, DATACOM, AND ANALOG)
Chapter 7: SOLITONS IN OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
Chapter 8: TAPERED-FIBER COUPLERS, MUX AND DEMUX
Chapter 9: FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS
Chapter 10: MICRO-OPTICS-BASED COMPONENTS FOR NETWORKING
Chapter 11: SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIRERS AND WAVELENGTH CONVERSION
Chapter 12: OPTICAL TIME-DIVISION MULTIPLEXED COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
Chapter 13: WAVELENGTH DOMAIN MULTIPLEXED (WDM) FIBER-OPTIC COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
Chapter 14: INFRARED FIBERS
Chapter 15: OPTICAL FIBER SENSORS
Chapter 16: FIBER-OPTIC COMMUNICATION STANDARDS

Tom G. Brown

The Institute of Optics
University of Rochester
Rochester, New York

1.1 GLOSSARY

A

open loop gain of receiver amplifier

A

pulse amplitude

a

core radius

a P

effective pump area

A eff

effective (modal) area of fiber

A i

cross-sectional area of ith layer

B

data rate

B n

noise bandwidth of amplifier

c

vacuum velocity of light

D

fiber dispersion (total)

E i

Young s modulus

e LO, e S

polarization unit vectors for signal and local oscillator fields

F

tensile loading

F e

excess noise factor (for...

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