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Undersea Fiber Communication Systems (Optics and Photonics)

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All in all this is a good book on the subject, it has a more math than I like, but the Author does a good job with the history of undersea cables, power budgets, repeaters (erbium light pumps), terminal equipment, cable construction (my favorite section), and marine installation and maintenance. I recommend this book for students, technicians, and engineers.

This book provides an excellent, in-depth discussion of the technology of submarine cable telecommunications systems. It assumes no prior knowledge, so is appropriate as an introduction to the topic, but also provides enough detail to serve as a reference for those involved in the industry. Although published in 2002, most of the material is still current. Recent developments such as coherent receivers, 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s transmission, and some newer fibre types is not covered, but you will need the background this book provides before moving on to those subjects. I recommend this book both to anyone with a casual interest in submarine cables and to those who work on them every day.