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Optical Fiber Telecommunications IV-B, Volume B, Fourth Edition: Systems and Impairments (Optics and Photonics) (v. IV) [Hardcover]

Ivan P. Kaminow (Editor), Tingye Li (Editor)

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Publication Date: April 29, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0123951739 | ISBN-13: 978-0123951731 | Edition: 4

Volume B is devoted to light wave systems and system impairments and compensation. Some of the topics include growth of the Internet, network architecture, undersea systems, high speed TDM transmission, cable TV systems, access networks, simulation tools, nonlinear effects, polarization mode dispersion, bandwidth formats, and more. This book is an excellent companion to Optical Fiber Telecommunications IVA: Components (March 2002, ISBN: 0-12-395172-0).

Fourth in a respected and comprehensive series
- Authoritative authors from a range of organizations
- Suitable for active lightwave R&D designers, developers, purchasers, operators, students, and analysts
- Lightwave components reviewed in Volume A
- Lightwave systems and impairments reviewed in Volume B
- Up-to-the minute coverage

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Fourth in a respected and comprehensive series
- Authoritative authors from a range of organizations
- Suitable for active lightwave R&D designers, developers, purchasers, operators, students, and analysts
- Lightwave components reviewed in Volume A
- Lightwave systems and impairments reviewed in Volume B
- Up-to-the minute coverage

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'OFT IV belongs in every engineering and technical library, university, military or corporation. It is of high technical quality but would be understood by non-engineers with a relatively high technical knowledge base.'
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The fourth installment in this popular series summarizes recent developments in light wave communications

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Hardcover: 1022 pages
Publisher: Academic Press; 4 edition (April 29, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0123951739
ISBN-13: 978-0123951731
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.7 inches
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Modern lightwave communications had its origin in the first demonstrations of the laser in 1960. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
directional multiplexing, net time shift, dispersion accumulates, residual dispersion per span, tunable compensation, novel modulation formats, unshifted fiber, tunable dispersion compensation, accumulated dispersion, distributed equalizer, metro edge rings, high local dispersion, full dispersion compensation, soliton format, solitonic regime, mode dispersion compensation, birefringent sections, metro core rings, dispersion mapping, cumulative dispersion, launch polarizations, optical amplifier systems, polarization mode dispersion measurements, shadow pulses, ranging burst

Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
European Conference, Technical Digest, United States, Optical Fiber Communication Conference, San Diego, Academic Press, Electronics Letters, National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, Photon Technol Lett, New York, Communications Magazine, Electron Lett, Moore's Law, Opt Lett, Elect Lett, Optical Networks Magazine, Lightwave Technol, Photon Tech Letters, Selected Areas, Optical Fiber Communications Conference, Opt Fiber, Bell Laboratories, New Jersey, Quantum Electron, Photonics Technology Letters

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This book cites 6 books:

Undersea Lightwave Communications (Frontiers in Communications/Pc01933) by Peter K. Runge on page 197
BGP4: Inter-Domain Routing in the Internet by John W. Stewart on page 156
The Principles of Nonlinear Optics (Wiley Classics Library) by Y. R. Shen on page 303
Logical Link Control: IEEE Standards for Local Area Networks on page 553
Laser Diode Modulation and Noise (Advances in Opto-Electronics) by Klaus Petermann on page 901

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