Optical Communications (Macmillan New Electronics)

This book aims to provide balanced coverage for a course on optical fibre communication systems. It includes material on electronics, as well as optical materials and semiconductor devices and covers developments in advanced lasers. In this revised edition, the solution of Maxwell's equations as applied to planar and cylindrical waveguides has been added to the existing ray-path analysis. Additional material on semiconductor physics as well as discussion of gas lasers and external modulators is included. New techniques and components featured are quantum-well lasers and sub-carrier multiplex systems. Worked examples appear throughout the text.