Optical Components for Communications: Principles and Applications

-Preface. - 1: Introduction to Optical Communication. 1. Introduction. 2. Emergence of Modern Optical-Fiber Communication. 3. Fundamentals of Light. 4. Interaction of Light with Matter. 5. Basic Properties of Transparent Materials. 6. Optical Fiber and Light Guiding. 7. Modern Optical-Fiber Communication System. 2: Transmitters (I) - Light Sources. 1. Introduction. 2. Principle of Light Emission. 3. Principle of Lasers. 4. Light Emitting Diodes and Semiconductor Lasers. 5. Semiconductor Lasers for Optical Communication. - 3: Transmitters (II) - Modulators. 1. Introduction. 2. Direct Modulation of Laser Diodes. 3. External Modulation. 4. Short-Pulse Techniques. - 4: Optical Amplifiers. 1. Introduction. 2. Principle of Optical Amplifiers. 3. Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA). 4. Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA). 5. Raman Amplifier. - 5: Photodetectors and Detection of Optical Radiation. 1. Introduction. 2. Photodetectors. 3. Noise Involved in the Detection of Optical Radiation. - 6: Principles of Optics for Passive Components. 1. Introduction. 2. Fabry-Perot Resonance due to Parallel Interfaces. 3. Transmission and Reflection from Multi-Layer Coatings. 4. Diffraction Grating. 5. Waveguide Coupling. 6. Mach-Zehnder Interference. 7. Birefringence. 8. Optical Activity. - 7: Passive Components (I). 1. Introduction. 2.Combiner/Splitter. 3. Fixed and Tunable Filters. 4. Isolator. 5. Circulator. 6. Attenuator. - 8: Passive Components (II). 1. Introduction. 2. Wavelength Division Multiplexer/Demultiplexer (WDM). 3. Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer/Demultiplexer (OADM). 4. Optical Switch, Optical Crossconnect and Wavelength Router. 5. Wavelength Converter.