This leading-edge resource provides you with comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of the principles, technologies, standards and applications of Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM). Essential reading for technical and business professionals alike, this volume will enable you to: understand how DWDM components, devices and networks operate, examine the configuration and design trade-offs of current DWDM components and systems, assess the latest standards for optical network management, discover recent technological developments, and decide the direction and most promising areas for future R&D in the field. With an authoritative and balanced presentation of history, theory, information on WDM components, and a focus on practical system applications, the work is an invaluable technical resource and research tool for design and manufacturing engineers, optical network designers, and postgraduate students. The book also gives you an overview of the latest, innovative applications of DWDM, particularly in telecommunication transmission links, advanced transport architectures and others.
Introduction Basic Principles and BackgroundWavelength Division Multiplexing: Basic Principles. History of Wavelength Division Multiplexing in a Few Words. Wavelength Division Multiplexing and Time Division Multiplex. Wavelength Domain and Separation Between Channels. Wavelength Allocation, ITU Grid. Optical Wavelength/Optical Frequency Conversion. How Many Channels? Some Definitions. Solitons.; Dense Wavelength Division Multipliers and DemultiplexersPassive Components, the Current Choices Available. Arrayed Waveguide Gratings. Fiber Bragg Gratings. Optical Multidielectric Filters. Diffraction Gratings. Cascaded Mach-Zehnder Interferometers. Other Devices. Methods for Broadening and Flattening the Spectral Shape of the Transmission Channels of Grating Wavelength Division Multiplexers.; Sources and Wavelength Converters for DWDMIntroduction. Semiconductor Lasers. Glass-Doped Based Lasers with Narrow-Linewidths. Spectral Slicing of Sources. Wavelength Converters.; Wavelength Division Multiplexing and Optical AmplificationIntroduction. Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOA). Brillouin Scattering Amplifiers. Raman Amplifier. Rare Earth-Doped Fiber Optic Amplifiers. Hybrid Raman/Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifiers. Erbium Doped Planar Waveguides.; Routers, Cross Connects and Add/DropsIntroduction. Wavelength Conversion. Network Architecture Classification. Some Definitions Used for Interconnection Performance Characterization. Interoperability in Optical Routed DWDM Networks. Space Switches. Passive Wavelength Router(PWR). Optical Cross Connector (OXC). Optical Add/Drop Multiplexers.; WDM Limits Caused by Optical Nonlinearities in Optical FibersIntroduction. Self Phase Modulation (SPM). Cross Phase Modulation(XPM). Four Wave Mixing (FWM). Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS). Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS). Conclusions. Additional Note.; Some Applications of Dense Wavelength Division MultiplexingSome of the Earlier Applications. Today;s DWDM Networks. Long Distance Transmission. Other Applications.;
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Jean-Pierre Laude
Jean-Pierre Laude is scientific director at Laude Consulting. He holds an engineering degree in optics from the Ecole Superieure d'Optique de Paris and a Ph.D. in spectroscopy from the University of Paris, Orsay. He holds 50 patents and has published extensively.