Lightwave Communications
eBook - PDF

Lightwave Communications

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Lightwave Communications

About this book

This pioneering, course-tested text is the first to combine communications theory with the physics of optical communications. Comprehensive and rigorous, it brings together an in-depth treatment of the physical characteristics of the guided lightwave channel with the study of modern methods of algorithmic-based communication in time and space. The many different levels at which a lightwave communication signal can be described are integrated to provide a unified explanation of how a commonplace bit stream is transformed into a physical lightwave, how that lightwave travels through an optical fiber, and how it is then transformed back into the bit stream. Background fundamentals such as linear systems and electromagnetics are explained in relation to modern topics such as channel models, encoding, modulation and interference, and end-of-chapter problems are provided throughout. This is an essential text for students taking courses on optical communications, as well as researchers and professionals working in the area.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Notation
  11. Primary Symbols
  12. List of Symbols
  13. 1 Introduction
  14. 2 Background
  15. 3 The Guided Lightwave Channel
  16. 4 The Linear Lightwave Channel
  17. 5 The Nonlinear Lightwave Channel
  18. 6 Random Signals
  19. 7 Lightwave Components
  20. 8 The Electrical Channel
  21. 9 The Information Channel
  22. 10 Modulation and Demodulation
  23. 11 Interference
  24. 12 Channel Estimation
  25. 13 Channel Codes
  26. 14 The Information Capacity of a Lightwave Channel
  27. 15 The Quantum-Optics Model
  28. 16 The Quantum-Lightwave Channel
  29. Bibliography
  30. Index