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The lens is generally the most expensive and least understood part
of any camera. In this book, Rudolf Kingslake traces the historical
development of the various types of lenses from Daguerre's
invention of photography in 1839 through lenses commonly used
today.
Provides an overview of Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs), from fundamentals to applicationsEvaluates the advantages and disadvantages of particular applications, methods and techniquesContains new chapters on sensing, femtosecond laser writing of FBGs and poling of glass and optical fibersIncludes a special version of the photonic simulator PicWave(tm), allowing the reader to make live simulations of many of the example devices presented in the book. This fully revised, updated and expanded second edition covers the substantial advances in the manufacture and use of FBGs in the years since the publication of the pioneering first edition. It presents a comprehensive treatise on FBGs and addresses issues such as the merits of one solution over another; why particular fabrication methods are preferred; and what advantages a user may gain from certain techniques. Beginning with the principles of FBGs, the book progresses to discuss photosensitization of optical fibers, Bragg grating fabrication and theory, properties of gratings, specific applications, sensing technology, glass poling, advances in femtosecond laser writing of Bragg gratings and FBG measurement techniques. In addition to material on telecommunications usage of FBGs, application areas such as fiber lasers and sensors are addressed in greater detail. This special version of Picwave is limited to modelling only the passive fibre devices covered in this book. However the full PicWave package is capable of modelling other non-linear and active devices such as laser diodes and SOAs as discussed in Chapter 8. More information about PicWave can be found at www.photond.com/products/picwave.htm. In addition to researchers, scientists, and graduate students, this book will be of interest to industrial practitioners in the field of fabrication of fiber optic materials and devices. Raman Kashyap, Canada Research Chair holder on Future Photonics
Systems, and Professor at Ecole Polytechnique, University of
Montreal since 2003, has researched optical fibers and devices for
over 30 years. He pioneered the fabrication of FBGs and
applications in telecommunications and photonics.
The first book on optical OFDM by the leading pioneers in the fieldThe only book to cover error correction codes for optical OFDMGives applications of OFDM to free-space communications, optical access networks, and metro and log haul transports show optical OFDM can be implementedContains introductions to signal processing for optical engineers and optical communication fundamentals for wireless engineers This book gives a coherent and comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of OFDM signal processing, with a distinctive focus on its broad range of applications. It evaluates the architecture, design and performance of a number of OFDM variations, discusses coded OFDM, and gives a detailed study of error correction codes for access networks, 100 Gb/s Ethernet and future optical networks. The emerging applications of optical OFDM, including single-mode fiber transmission, multimode fiber transmission, free space optical systems, and optical access networks are examined, with particular attention paid to passive optical networks, radio-over-fiber, WiMAX and UWB communications. Written by two of the leading contributors to the field, this book will be a unique reference for optical communications engineers and scientists. Students, technical managers and telecom executives seeking to understand this new technology for future-generation optical networks will find the book invaluable. William Shieh is an associate professor and reader in the electrical and electronic engineering department, The University of Melbourne, Australia. He received his M.S. degree in electrical engineering and Ph.D. degree in physics both from University of Southern California. Ivan Djordjevic is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona, Tucson, where he directs the Optical Communications Systems Laboratory (OCSL). His current research interests include optical networks, error control coding, constrained coding, coded modulation, turbo equalization, OFDM applications, and quantum error correction. "This wonderful book is the first one to address the rapidly
emerging optical OFDM field. Written by two leading researchers in
the field, the book is structured to comprehensively cover any
optical OFDM aspect one could possibly think of, from the most
fundamental to the most specialized. The book adopts a coherent
line of presentation, while striking a thoughtful balance between
the various topics, gradually developing the optical-physics and
communication-theoretic concepts required for deep comprehension of
the topic, eventually treating the multiple optical OFDM methods,
variations and applications. In my view this book will remain
relevant for many years to come, and will be increasingly accessed
by graduate students, accomplished researchers as well as
telecommunication engineers and managers keen to attain a
perspective on the emerging role of OFDM in the evolution of
photonic networks." -- "Prof.Moshe Nazarathy, EE Dept., Technion,
Israel Institute of Technology"
Fiber Optic Measurement Techniques is an indispensable collection
of key optical measurement techniques essential for developing and
characterizing today s photonic devices and fiber optic systems.
The book gives comprehensive and systematic descriptions of various
fiber optic measurement methods with the emphasis on the
understanding of optoelectronic signal processing methodologies,
helping the reader to weigh up the pros and cons of each technique
and establish their suitability for the task at hand.
Passive optical network (PON) technologies have become an important
broadband access technology as a result of the growing demand for
bandwidth-hungry video-on-demand applications. Written by the
leading researchers and industry experts in the field, this book
provides coherent coverage of networking technologies, fiber optic
transmission technologies, as well as the electronics involved in
PON system development.
This book is a comprehensive contributed volume that aims to
describe and explain the design, fabrication, operating
characteristics, and specific applications of the most popular and
useful types of specialty optical fibers. These "specialty fibers"
include any kind of optical fiber that has been architecturally
manipulated to diverge from a conventional structure. For instance,
metal-coated fibers can be utilized for bandwidth improvement, and
hollow core fibers offer more controllable dispersion for sensitive
medical procedures.
Optical interferometry is used in communications, medical imaging,
astonomy, and structural measurement. With the use of an
interferometer engineers and scientists are able to complete
surface inspections of micromachined surfaces and semiconductors.
Medical technicians are able to give more consise diagnoses with
the employ of interferometers in microscopy, spectroscopy, and
coherent tomography.
Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena serves as an introduction to the
phenomena of ultrashort laser pulses and describes how this
technology can be applied in areas such as spectroscopy, medical
imaging, electromagnetism, optics, and quantum physics. Combining
the principles with experimental techniques, the book serves as a
guide to designing and constructing femtosecond systems.
Optical technology is essential to communications and medical
technology. K.K. Sharma has written a comprehensive volume on
optics. Beginning with introductory ideas and equations, Sharma
takes the reader through the world of optics detailing problems
encountered, advanced subjects, and actual applications. Elegantly
written, this book rigorously examines optics with over 300
illustrations and several problems in each chapter. The book begins
with light propagation in anisotropic media considered much later
in most books. Sharma has started with this because it provides a
more general and beautiful example of light propagation.
Solitons are waves that retain their form through obstacle and
distance. Solitons can be found in hydrodynamics, nonlinear optics,
plasma physics, and biology. Optical solitons are solitary light
waves that hold their form over an expansive interval. Conservation
of this form creates an effective model for long distance voice and
data transmission.
This book is a MUST for everyone in and around the optics
community!
The book provides a comprehensive, lucid, and clear introduction to the world of guided wave optical components and devices. Bishnu Pal has collaborated with some of the greatest minds in optics to create a truly inclusive treatise on this contemporary topic. Written by leaders in the field, this book delivers cutting-edge research and essential information for professionals, researchers, and students on emerging topics like microstructured fibers, broadband fibers, polymer fiber components and waveguides, acousto-optic interactions in fibers, higher order mode fibers, nonlinear and parametric process in fibers, revolutionary effects of erbium doped and Raman fiber amplifiers in DWDM and CATV networks, all-fiber network branching component technology platforms like fused fiber couplers, fiber gratings, and side-polished fiber half-couplers, arrayed waveguides, optical MEMS, fiber sensing technologies including safety, civil structural health monitoring, and gyroscope applications.
Optical fiber telecommunications depend upon light traveling great
distances through optical fibers. As light travels it tends to
disperse and this results in some degree of signal loss. Raman
amplification is a technique that is effective in any fiber to
amplify the signal light as it travels through transmission fibers,
compensating for inevitable signal loss.
From its inception nearly 30 years ago, the optical subdiscipline
now referred to as nonimaging optics, has experienced dramatic
growth. The term nonimaging optics is concerned with applications
where imaging formation is not important but where effective and
efficient collection, concentration, transport and distribution of
light energy is - i.e. solar energy conversion, signal detection,
illumination optics, measurement and testing. This book will
incorporate the substantial developments of the past decade in this
field.
Internet information (which is doubling every six months) travels
through optical fibers. Today, optical fibers are being installed
where a single fiber has the ability to carry information as much
as 200 times faster than was possible just five years ago. This
revolutionary capability is being achieved with technology known as
wavelength division multiplexing WDM). WDM technology relies on the
fact that optical fibers can carry many wavelengths of light
simultaneously without interaction between each wavelength. Thus, a
single fiber can carry many separate wavelength signals or channels
simultaneously.
Practical Optics bridges the gap between what students learn in
optical engineering curricula and the problems they realistically
will face as optical engineering practitioners, in a variety of
high-tech industries. A broad range of topics from modern optical
engineering are addressed, ranging from geometrical optics and
basic layout of electro-optical instruments, to the theory of
imaging, radiation sources and radiation sensors, spectroscopy, and
color vision and description of optical methods for measurements of
numerous physical parameters (temperature, flow velocity,
distances, roughness of surfaces, etc.).
The current research into solitons and their use in fiber optic
communications is very important to the future of communications.
Since the advent of computer networking and high speed data
transmission technology people have been striving to develop faster
and more reliable communications media. Optical pulses tend to
broaden over relatively short distances due to dispersion, but
solitons on the other hand are not as susceptible to the effects of
dispersion, and although they are subject to losses due to
attenuation they can be amplified without being received and
re-transmitted.
Optoelectronics has become an important part of our lives. Wherever
light is used to transmit information, tiny semiconductor devices
are needed to transfer electrical current into optical signals and
vice versa. Examples include light emitting diodes in radios and
other appliances, photodetectors in elevator doors and digital
cameras, and laser diodes that transmit phone calls through glass
fibers. Such optoelectronic devices take advantage of sophisticated
interactions between electrons and light. Nanometer scale
semiconductor structures are often at the heart of modern
optoelectronic devices. Their shrinking size and increasing
complexity make computer simulation an important tool to design
better devices that meet ever rising perfomance requirements. The
current need to apply advanced design software in optoelectronics
follows the trend observed in the 1980's with simulation software
for silicon devices. Today, software for technology computer-aided
design (TCAD) and electronic design automation (EDA) represents a
fundamental part of the silicon industry. In optoelectronics,
advanced commercial device software has emerged recently and it is
expected to play an increasingly important role in the near future.
This book will enable students, device engineers, and researchers
to more effectively use advanced design software in
optoelectronics.
Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) technology relies on the fact that optical fibres can carry many wavelengths of light without interaction between each wavelength. Thus, a single fibre can carry many separate wavelength signals or channels simultaneously. This title covers all key active optical components required for current and next generation communication systems.;Its aim is to help the reader to choose the right device for a given system application, as well as aiding engineers working in optical communication area, (from system to component) to understand the principle and mechanics of each key component they deal with for optical system design. It covers different laser diodes as transmitter and pumping sources, different modulators and different photodetectors, and highlights the operating principles of each component, fabrication technologies and packaging/module technologies.
This book is an authoritative review of current and future trends
in the field of telecommunications. Written by industry experts who
are developing leading-edge data communication networks, Fiber
Optic Data Communication provides professionals and students alike
with a look at emerging technologies and their applications. Four
of the chapters have been revised from DeCusatis's best-selling
book, Handbook of Fiber Optic Data Communications; the remaining
eight chapters are all new. Seven helpful appendices, a glossary,
and a list of technical acronyms are included. This book can stand
alone or as a companion volume to DeCusatis: Handbook of Fiber
Optic Data Communication, Second Edition (February 2002, ISBN:
0-12-207891-8).
While there are books treating individual topics contained in this book, this will be the first single volume providing a cohesive treatment on this subject as a whole. This goes beyond optical communications in that it includes related topics such as sensing, displays, computing, and data storage.
This book presents, in a unified form, the underlying physical and structural processes that determine the optical behavior of materials. It does this by combining elements from physics, optics, and materials science in a seamless manner, and introducing quantum mechanics when needed. The book groups the characteristics of optical materials into classes with similar behavior. In treating each type of material, the text pays particular attention to atomic composition and chemical makeup, electronic states and band structure, and physical microstructure so that the reader will gain insight into the kinds of materials engineering and processing conditions that are required to produce a material exhibiting a desired optical property. The physical principles are presented on many levels, including a physical explanation, followed by formal mathematical support and examples and methods of measurement. The reader may overlook the equations with no loss of comprehension, or may use the text to find appropriate equations for calculations of optical properties. * Presents the optical properties of metals, insulators,
semiconductors, laser materials, and non-linear materials
The advances of photorefractive optics have demonstrated many useful and practical applications, which include the development of photorefractive optic devices for computer communication needs. To name a couple significant applications: the large capacity optical memory, which can greatly improve the accessible high-speed CD-ROM and the dynamic photorefractive gratings, which can be used for all-optic switches for high-speed fiber optic networks. This book is an important reference both for technical and non-technical staffs who are interested in this field. * Covers the recent development in materials, phenomena, and
applications
This book provides a unified treatment of the characteristics of
telescopes of all types, both those whose performance is set by
geometrical aberrations and the effect of the atmosphere, and those
diffraction-limited telescopes designed for observations from above
the atmosphere. The emphasis throughout is on basic principles,
such as Fermat's principle, and their application to optical
systems specifically designed to image distant celestial
sources. * Geometrical aberration theory based on Fermat's
principle
Optical fibers have revolutionized telecommunication, becoming the
most widely used and the most efficient device for relaying
information over long distances. While the market for optical fiber
continues to grow, the next stage in the field of communication is
the mass delivery of integrated services, such as home banking,
shopping, internet services, and entertainment using video on
demand. The economies and performance potential will determine the
type of technology likely to succeed in the provision of these
services. But it is already clear that optical fibers will play a
crucial role in communication systems of the future. The
opportunities provided by fiber Bragg gratings are of enormous
importance for the further development of the fiber optic
communication lines as cost-effective and efficient devices of the
future. * Addresses one of the most promising fields for future
development in applied optics |
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