Fiber Optic Communications

Published by Wiley and written by Shiva Kumar, Fiber Optic Communications is a technical work on the main parts of light-based communication systems: transmitters, optical fibers, amplifiers and receivers. It also explores recent developments, including nonlinear fiber-optic systems and nonlinear phase noise.

The opening section revisits electromagnetics and optics, with attention to Faraday's law and Maxwell's equations. From there, the book moves into optical fiber transmission, laser oscillation, wave-particle density and semiconductor laser diodes. Later chapters cover optical sources, optical modulators, optical receivers (including coherent receivers) and optical amplifiers.

The final part addresses performance analysis, channel multiplexing techniques, nonlinear effects and digital signal processing, in that order.