Fiber Optics: Fourth Edition

Author: Hector
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: This book emphasizes fundamentals, highlights key points, presents up-to-date content, and covers a broad scope. It is an excellent textbook that has been selected by many universities abroad as a teaching material for senior undergraduate or graduate students in electronic, information, and communication-related fields. It is also a highly useful reference for engineering technicians in the optical communication industry and scientists engaged in fiber optics research. The book systematically elaborates on the fundamental concepts, technologies, and applications of fiber optics, including: fibers, cables, laser and LED light sources, optical transmitters, optical detectors, optical receivers, optical amplifiers, electro-optical regenerators, and various optical network devices. It covers basic techniques for optical and fiber measurements, the application of fiber optics in communications—global, metropolitan, local access networks, computer, local area networks, video communications, optical communications with remote control, the principles and applications of fiber optic sensors, and the applications of fiber optics in imaging and lighting.