Optical Fiber Telecommunications Va: Components and Subsystems [With CDROM] (Hardcover)

Overview; Semiconductor Quantum Dots; High-Speed Low-Chirp Semiconductor Lasers; Recent Advances in Surface Emitting Lasers; Pump Diode Lasers; Ultra-High-Speed Laser Modulation by Injection-Locking; Recent Developments in High-Speed Optical Modulators; Advances in Photodetectors; Planar Lightwave Circuits in Fiber-Optic Communications; III-V Photonic Integrated Circuits and Their Impact on Optical Network Architectures; Silicon Photonics; Photonic Crystal Theory: Temporal Coupled-Mode Formalism; Photonic Crystal Technologies: Experiment; Photonic Crystal Fibers: Basics and Applications; Specialty Fibers for Optical Communication Systems; Plastic Optical Fibers: Technologies and Communication Links; Polarization Mode Dispersion; Electronic Signal Processing for Dispersion Compensation and Error Mitigation in Optical Transmission Networks; MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) for Lightwave Communication; Nonlinear Optics in Communications: From Crippling Impairment to Ultrafast Tools; Fiber-optic Quantum Information Technologies