Elements Of Photonics Volume Ii

Download or read book Elements of Photonics, Volume II written by Keigo Iizuka and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 2002-06-06 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a particularly good discussion of the electromagnetics of light in bounded media (i.e., fibers). * The only book that treats the two complementary topics, fiber and integrated optics. * A careful and thorough presentation of the topics that make it well suited for self-study. * Includes numerous figures, problems and worked-out solutions. * Discusses all the topics essential to modern optical communication systems including optical fibers, quantum electronics, optical amplifiers, and lasers among others. * Concludes with a chapter that applies the design skills developed throughout the book to realistic problems in fiber optic communication systems. * Heavily illustrated with over 300 figures specially formatted to aid in comprehension.