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Nonlinear optics in telecommunications : with 14 tables, and 70 problems ; solutions for Instructors available online at springeronline.com/3-540-20195-5

Broader bandwidths, denser channel spacing, and higher signal intensities all makes nonlinear effects more critical to the performance of telecommunications systems.
Print Book, English, 2004
Springer, Berlin, 2004
XI, 415 Seiten : Illustrationen, zahlreiche Diagramme
9783540201953, 3540201955
249553177
1. Introduction.- I. Fundamentals of Linear and Nonlinear Optics.- 2. Overview of Linear Optical Effects.- 3. Optical Telecommunications.- 4. Nonlinear Effects.- II. Nonlinear Effects in Optical Waveguides.- 5. The Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation.- 6. Self- and Cross-Phase Modulation.- 7. Four-Wave-Mixing (FWM).- 8. Intrachannel Nonlinear Effects.- 9. Solitons.- 10. Raman Scattering.- 11. Brillouin Scattering.- III. Applications of Nonlinear Effects in Telecommunications.- 12. Optical Signal Processing.- 13. Nonlinear Lasers and Amplifiers.- 14. Nonlinear Optical Phase Conjugation.- A. Appendices.- A.1 div, grad, curl, rot.- A.2 The Gaussian Pulse.- A.3 Logarithmical Units.- References.