Fiber Optic Essentials

By: Casimer DeCusatis

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Hardcover | 6 December 2005

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This book is a MUST for everyone in and around the optics community!

Fiber Optic Essentials provides professionals and students new to the field of fiber optics with a high-level knowledge of principles, theories and applications. This primer can also be used as a succinct overview of optics for those with some engineering and physics background. Individuals involved with optics in non-traditional capacities such as in marketing and legal departments will find this volume introduces basic concepts completely in an easy to read format.

Casimer and Carolyn DeCusatis have provided a concise resource with compact chapters and minimal equations conveying this complex topic in a straightforward and clear-cut style. Included in this book are chapters on fibers, cables, connectors, transmitters, modulators, noise, and optical link design. Concluding this reference are three indispensable appendices covering extensive definitions, acronyms (including initials and commonly used slang), measurement conversions and physical constants. This author team has produced a book that has truly shed light on this difficult subject.

Comprehensively covers basic fiber optic 'facts'
Explains how optics relate to everyday life
Details fiber optic communication standards
Chapter included on medical applications
Timeline traces the history of optics with major milestones

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"Fiber Optic Essentials lives up to its name. In fewer than 300 pages, you will learn about the fundamentals of fiber optics, from the fiber itself to the transmitters and receivers to the design of FO systems. You'll also get a brief exposure to network protocols and to fiber-optic applications outside of communications, such as medical imaging." --Martin Rowe, Senior Technical Editor - Test & Measurement World, 10/1/2006

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Non-Fiction Engineering & Technology Technology in General Other Technologies & Applied Sciences Applied Optics Fibre Optics Electronics & Communications Engineering Communications Engineering & Telecommunications

Preface	p. ix
Fiber, Cables, and Connectors	p. 1
Optical Fiber Principles	p. 4
Basic Terminology	p. 13
Single-Mode Fiber	p. 16
Multimode Fiber	p. 19
Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs)	p. 20
Plastic Optical Fiber	p. 21
Cables	p. 23
References	p. 26
Transmitters	p. 29
Basic Transmitter Specification Terminology	p. 30
Laser Safety	p. 32
Light Emitting Diodes	p. 34
Lasers	p. 39
Double Heterostructure Laser Diodes	p. 43
Quantum Well (QW) and Strained Layer (SL) Quantum Well Lasers	p. 44
Distributed Bragg Reflector (DBR) and Distributed Feedback (DFB) Lasers	p. 45
Vertical Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers	p. 47
Modulators	p. 48
Lithium Niobate Modulators	p. 50
Electroabsorption Modulators	p. 51
Electro Optic and Electrorefractive Semiconductor Modulators	p. 52
References	p. 53
Detectors and Receivers	p. 55
Basic Detector Specification Terminology	p. 56
PN Photodiode	p. 62
PIN Photodiode	p. 65
Other Detectors	p. 73
Avalanche Photodiode	p. 74
Photodiode Array	p. 76
Schottky-Barrier Photodiodes	p. 78
Metal-Semiconductor-Metal (MSM) Detectors	p. 79
Resonant-Cavity Enhanced Photodetectors (RECAP)	p. 82
Interferometric Sensors	p. 83
Noise	p. 85
Shot Noise	p. 88
Thermal Noise	p. 88
Other Noise Sources	p. 89
Signal-to-Noise Ratio	p. 90
References	p. 91
Fiber Optic Link Design	p. 93
Figures of Merit	p. 93
Link Budget Analysis	p. 98
Installation Loss	p. 98
Transmission Loss	p. 99
Attenuation vs. Wavelength	p. 99
Connector and Splice Loss	p. 99
Optical Power Penalties	p. 100
Dispersion	p. 100
Mode Partition Noise	p. 103
Relative Intensity Noise	p. 104
Jitter	p. 105
Modal Noise	p. 106
Radiation Induced Loss	p. 107
References	p. 108
Repeaters and Optical Amplifiers	p. 111
Repeaters	p. 114
Optical Amplifiers	p. 115
Rare Earth Doped Optical Fiber Amplifiers	p. 115
Semiconductor Amplifiers	p. 119
Nonlinear Effects and Optical Amplifiers for WDM	p. 120
References	p. 124
Wavelength Multiplexing	p. 125
WDM Design Considerations	p. 130
Network Topologies	p. 135
Latency	p. 138
Protection and Restoration	p. 143
Network Management	p. 145
References	p. 146
Fiber Optic Communication Standards	p. 149
Why Do We Need Standards?	p. 149
ESCON/SBCON	p. 154
Fiber Distributed Data Interface	p. 155
Fibre Channel Standard	p. 157
ATM/SONET	p. 158
Gigabit Ethernet	p. 160
InfiniBand	p. 162
References	p. 163
Fabrication and Measurement	p. 165
Fabrication Techniques	p. 165
Fiber Drawing: Liquid Phase Methods	p. 166
Fiber Drawing: Chemical Vapor Deposition	p. 167
Fiber Bragg Gratings	p. 170
Semiconductor Device Fabrication	p. 171
Measurement Equipment	p. 174
Fiber Optic Power Meter	p. 174
Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR)	p. 175
Bit Error Rate Test (BERT)	p. 176
Digital Sampling Oscilloscope	p. 177
References	p. 179
Medical Applications	p. 181
Endoscopes	p. 182
Rigid Endoscopes	p. 185
The Clinical Environment	p. 186
Laser Fibers	p. 186
Applications	p. 188
Illumination	p. 190
Biosensors	p. 191
References	p. 193
Fiber Facts	p. 195
Basic Information	p. 195
Moore's "Law" and Optical Data Communication	p. 196
Internet Traffic	p. 197
Capacity vs. Cost	p. 197
Disaster Recovery Facts	p. 198
Fiber for Lighting and Illumination	p. 200
Unusual Applications and Future Developments	p. 203
References	p. 204
Fiber Optic Timeline	p. 207
Basic Knowledge Timeline	p. 208
Timeline for Selected Optical Data Communications Milestones	p. 211
Timeline for Fiber Optic Milestones in Medical Applications	p. 213
References	p. 216
Glossary	p. 219
Acronyms and Initials	p. 241
Measurement Conversion Tables	p. 261
Index	p. 263
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