This book highlights the fundamental principles of optical fiber
technology required for understanding modern high-capacity lightwave
telecom networks. Such networks have become an indispensable part of
society with applications ranging from simple web browsing to critical
healthcare diagnosis and cloud computing. Since users expect these
services to always be available, careful engineering is required in all
technologies ranging from component development to network operations.
To achieve this understanding, this book first presents a comprehensive
treatment of various optical fiber structures and diverse photonic
components used in optical fiber networks. Following this discussion are
the fundamental design principles of digital and analog optical fiber
transmission links. The concluding chapters present the architectures
and performance characteristics of optical networks.