Bass M., Van Stryland E.W. Fiber Optics Handbook: Fiber, Devices, and Systems for Optical Communications

McGraw-Hill Professional, 2002, 399 pp.

Fiber optics has developed so rapidly during the last 30 years that it has become the backbone of our communications systems, critical to many medical procedures, the basis of many critical sensors, and utilized in many laser manufacturing applications. The result is a coherent and thorough presentation of the issues in fiber optics and in fiber optics communication systems. This book contains 16 articles. The first is a general review of fiber optics and fiber optic communications. There are other articles conceing fiber optic fundamentals and device issues. These include articles discussing nonlinear optical effects in fibers, sources, detectors, and modulators for communications, fiber amplifiers, fiber Bragg gratings, and infrared fibers. Fiber optics communications systems issues are treated in articles conceing telecommunication links, solitons, fiber couplers, MUX and deMUX, micro-optics for networking, semiconductor amplifiers and wavelength conversion, time and wavelength domain multiplexing, and fiber communications standards. An article on fiber optics sensors is also included.