Polarization Optics in Telecommunications (Springer Series in Optical Sciences)

✍ Scribed by Jay N. Damask

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 534
• Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences volume 101
• Edition: Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The strong investments into optical telecommunications in the late 1990s resulted in a wealth of new research, techniques, component designs, and understanding of polarization effects in fiber. Polarization Optics in Telecommunications brings together recent advances in the field to create a standard, practical reference for component designers and optical fiber communication engineers. Beginning with a sound foundation in electromagnetism, the author offers a dissertation of the spin-vector formalism of polarization and the interaction of light with media. Applications discussed include optical isolators, optical circulators, fiber collimators, and a variety of applied waveplate and prism combinations. Also included in an extended discussion of polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) and polarization-dependent loss (PDL), their representation, behavior, statistical properties, and measurement. This book draws extensively from the technical and patent literature and is an up-to-date reference for researchers and component designers in industry and academia.

✦ Table of Contents

front-matter......Page 1
Contents......Page 9
1 Vectorial Propagation of Light......Page 14
2 The Spin-Vector Calculus of Polarization......Page 50
3 Interaction of Light and Dielectric Media......Page 92
4 Elements and Basic Combinations......Page 156
5 Collimator Technologies......Page 224
6 Isolators......Page 260
7 Circulators......Page 286
8 Properties of Polarization-Dependent Loss andPolarization-Mode Dispersion......Page 310
9 Statistical Properties of Polarization in Fiber......Page 398
10 Review of Polarization Test and Measurement......Page 442
back-matter......Page 504
Index
......Page 521

✦ Subjects

Связь и телекоммуникации;Телекоммуникации;