Optical fiber communication / Sapna Katiyar.

Includes index.

Introduction to optical fiber communication -- Optical fiber waveguides -- Transmission characteristics of optical fibers -- Optical sources 1: the laser -- Optical sources 2: the light emitting diode -- Optical detectors -- Direct detection receiver performance considerations -- Optical fiber communications systems -- Coherent optical fiber systems.

"The optical fiber communication is emerging technology and growing at a faster rate over last two decades because of the dramatic reduction in transmission loss of optical fibers coupled with equally important developments in the area of light sources and detectors. The birth of optical fiber communications coincided with the fabrication of low pass optical fibers and operation of room temperature semiconductor lasers in 1970. The development of optical fiber technology for communication networks, medical applications, and other areas represents unique confluences of physics, electronics and mechanical engineering disciplines. This book deals with important topics like electroluminescence sources, photodetectors, optical fibers, transmission and receiver optical systems, description of various types of optical transmitter and receiver. This text book is intended for students perusing an undergraduate course in electronics and communication engineering. The aim is to cover the field of fiberoptics and its applications. It also contains solved and unsolved problems"-- Preface of the book.