Fiber Optics: Technology and Applications

✍ Scribed by Stewart D. Personick (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Series: Applications of Communications Theory
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is an outgrowth of a course given by the author for people in industry, government, and universities wishing to understand the implica­ tions of emerging optical fiber technology, and how this technology can be applied to their specific information transport and sensing system needs. The course, in turn, is an outgrowth of 15 exciting years during which the author participated in the research and development, as well as in the application, of fiber technology. The aim of this book is to provide the reader with a working knowledge of the components and subsystems which make up fiber systems and of a wide variety of implemented and proposed applications for fiber technology. The book is directed primarily at those who would be users, as opposed to developers, of the technology. The first half of this book is an overview of components and subsys­ tems including fibers, connectors, cables, sources, detectors, receivers, transmitters, and miscellaneous components. The goal is to familiarize the reader with the properties of these components and subsystems to the extent necessary to understand their potential applications and limitations.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Technology Overview....Pages 3-5
Optical Fibers....Pages 6-45
Optical Sources and Transmitters....Pages 46-70
Optical Detectors and Receivers....Pages 71-106
Optical Components....Pages 107-118
System Phenomenology....Pages 119-125
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
Telecommunications Trunking....Pages 129-161
Data Links....Pages 162-174
Local Area Networks....Pages 175-193
Analog Links for Video, Telemetry, i.f. and r.f. Remoting....Pages 194-215
Broadband Networks....Pages 216-223
Sensing Systems....Pages 224-232
System Measurements....Pages 233-240
Emerging Technology and Applications....Pages 241-247
Back Matter....Pages 248-257

✦ Subjects

Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices; Acoustics; Electrical Engineering; Computer Communication Networks; Optical and Electronic Materials