Ultrahigh-Speed Optical Transmission Technology [Hardcover]

This book is a detailed description of all the aspects of ultrahigh speed optical transmission technology. Ultrahigh-speed optical transmission technology is a key technology for increasing communication capacity. The devices developed for ultrahigh-speed optical transmission are not limited to communication applications only. They are key devices for high-speed optical signal processing, i.e. monitoring, measurement and control, and will thus give a wide technological basis for innovative science and technology. All these aspects of ultrahigh-speed optical transmission technology are described in detail in this book.

to ultra-high-speed optical transmission technology.- Semiconductor mode-locked lasers as pulse sources for high bit rate data transmission.- Ultrafast mode-locked fiber lasers for high-speed OTDM transmission and related topics.- Ultra-high-speed LiNbO3 modulators.- High-speed optical signal processing using semiconductor optical amplifiers.- Optical signal processing using nonlinear fibers.- Ultrafast photodetectors and receivers.- Optical nonlinearities in semiconductor optical amplifier and electro-absorption modulator: their applications to all-optical regeneration.- Optical fibers and fiber dispersion compensators for high-speed optical communication.- Fiber Bragg gratings for dispersion compensation in optical communication systems.- Higher-order dispersion compensation using phase modulators.- PMD-compensation techniques.- Application of electroabsorption modulators for high-speed transmission systems.- Ultrafast OTDM transmission using novel fiber devices for pulse compression, shaping, and demultiplexing.- Ultrafast optical technologies for large-capacity TDM/WDM photonic networks.- New optical device technologies for ultrafast OTDM systems.- Optical sampling techniques.

H.G.Weber: Professor of Physics at the Technical University of Berlin and head of a research group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunicationl&