EAN: 9783662527627

FIBER OPTICS - FEDOR MITSCHKE GEBUNDEN

This book tells you all you want to know about optical fibers: Their structure  their
light-guiding mechanism  their material and manufacture  their use. It began with telephone 
then came telefax and email. Today we use search engines  music downloads and internet videos 
all of which require shuffling of bits and bytes by the zillions. The key to all this is the
conduit: the line which is designed to carry massive amounts of data at breakneck speed. In
their data carrying capacity optical fiber lines beat all other technologies (copper cable 
microwave beacons  satellite links) hands down  at least in the long haul  wireless devices
rely on fibers  too. Several effects tend to degrade the signal as it travels down the fiber:
they are spelled out in detail. Nonlinear processes are given due consideration for a twofold
reason: On the one hand they are fundamentally different from the more familiar processes in
electrical cable. On the other hand  they form the basis of particularly interesting and
innovative applications  provided they are understood well enough. A case in point is the use
of so-called solitons  i.e. special pulses of light which have the wonderful property of being
able to heal after perturbation. The book will take you from the physical basics of ray and
beam optics  explain fiber structure and the functions of optical elements  and bring you to
the forefront of both applications and research. The state of the art of high speed data
transmission is described  and the use of fiber optic sensors in metrology is treated. The book
is written in a pedagogical style so that students of both physics and electrical engineering 
as well as technicians and engineers involved in optical technologies  will benefit. The new
edition is largely updated and has new sections on nonlinear phenomena in fibers as well as on
the latest trends in applications.

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