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Within the past few decades, information technologies have been evolving at a tremendous rate, causing profound changes to our world and our ways of life. In particular, fiber optics has been playing an increasingly crucial role within the telecommunication revolution. Not only most long-distance links are fiber based, but optical fibers are increasingly approaching the individual end users, providing wide bandwidth links to support all kinds of data-intensive applications such as video, voice, and data services. As an engineering discipline, fiber optics is both fascinating and challenging. Fiber optics is an area that incorporates elements from a wide range of techno- gies including optics, microelectronics, quantum electronics, semiconductors, and networking. As a result of rapid changes in almost all of these areas, fiber optics is a fast evolving field. Therefore, the need for up-to-date texts that address this growing field from an interdisciplinary perspective persists. This book presents an overview of fiber optics from a practical, engineering perspective. Therefore, in addition to topics such as lasers, detectors, and optical fibers, several topics related to electronic circuits that generate, detect, and process the optical signals are covered. In other words, this book attempts to present fiber optics not so much in terms of a field of "optics" but more from the perspective of an engineering field within "optoelectronics.
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This work by Azadeh (Source Photonics Inc.) is a useful overview of the main aspects of fiber optic communication technology. The book consists of 12 chapters that can be grouped into three sections. The first section begins with an introduction discussing the nature of light; it gives a brief review of the basic elements in a fiber optic link, distribution topologies and network categories, and signal representation and characterization. The second section presents a somewhat more detailed discussion on semiconductor lasers, optical fibers, and photodiode detectors including PIN and APD. It describes phenomena that influence the operation of each, such as chirp, dispersion, and noise, respectively. The last part of the book deals with the design of optical transceivers from a circuit perspective, examines reliability issues, describes test and measurement methods, and chronicles standards that are adopted for the classification of optical communication systems and selected components. This work aims to provide a practical appreciation of optical communication systems and helpful supplementary reading for students outside a classroom. No rigorous mathematics is involved. Chapters contain references for further reading, but no problems or examples. Common acronyms are listed in an appendix. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and practitioners. O. Eknoyan Texas A&M University
