Part 1: FIBER OPTICS

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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