Overview

Broader bandwidths, denser channel spacing, and higher signal intensities all makes nonlinear effects more critical to the performance of telecommunications systems. This comprehensive and didactic overview explores the nonlinear effects from a physical point of view and discusses the implications for signal capacity. Enriched with practical considerations and experimental results, the book offers special chapters dealing with applications of nonlinear effects for signal processing, ultrafast-optical switching, wavelength conversion, nonlinear amplification, and optical phase-conjugation. The author Thomas Schneider of Deutsche Telekom demonstrates how innovative thinking can actually exploit nonlinear effects to enhance bandwidth and overcome previous limitations. Equipped with chapter-end summaries and problems, this valuable reference can also serve as a graduate-level textbook.

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Author:   Thomas Schneider
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2004
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.658kg
ISBN:  

9783642057724

ISBN 10:   3642057721
Pages:   420
Publication Date:   09 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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.

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"From the reviews: ""This comprehensive new book on Nonlinear Optics in Telecommunications provides a timely overview of the physics and applications of nonlinearity in optical communications systems. I found this a high quality book providing in depth coverage of the most important topics. It is highly recommended to the specialist researcher or postgraduate student."" (Barry Luther Davies, The Physicist, Vol. 41 (6), November/December, 2004)"

From the reviews: This comprehensive new book on Nonlinear Optics in Telecommunications provides a timely overview of the physics and applications of nonlinearity in optical communications systems. I found this a high quality book providing in depth coverage of the most important topics. It is highly recommended to the specialist researcher or postgraduate student. (Barry Luther Davies, The Physicist, Vol. 41 (6), November/December, 2004)

From the reviews: This comprehensive new book on Nonlinear Optics in Telecommunications provides a timely overview of the physics and applications of nonlinearity in optical communications systems. I found this a high quality book providing in depth coverage of the most important topics. It is highly recommended to the specialist researcher or postgraduate student. (Barry Luther Davies, The Physicist, Vol. 41 (6), November/December, 2004)

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