Ultra-high Frequency Linear Fiber Optic Systems

Designed for a one-semester course on fiber-optics systems and communication links, this book provides a concise but rigorous treatment of the performance and theory behind linear fiber-optics devices, links, and system issues. Essential to modern communications, these systems form the basis for Hybrid Fiber Coax (HFC) network infrastructure, on which in turn, popular CATV and cable modem access depend. System issues include effects of dispersion, signal-induced noise and interferometric noise are described and quantified, and means of mitigating them are explored in detail. Also covered are ultra-high frequency fiber optic technologies which are key to realization of emerging local networks based on free-space millimeter wave links. This broad but concise text will be invaluable not only to students of fiber-optics communication but also to practicing engineers.