Twenty years have passed since the first serious proposal was made to use a glass‐fiber
waveguide as a telecommunications transmission medium. Since then, vigorous research …

Long-haul lightwave systems are being developed for ever increasing transmission speeds.
At this writing research is being performed at line rates exceeding 8Gb/s [1] The demands for …

Recent research on long-wavelength lightwave communication utilizing the wavelength
region between 1.3 and 1.6 µm is reviewed with an eye toward future system development …

In a little over ten years, lightwave communication using optical fibers has progressed from a
laboratory proposal to a near commercial reality. Losses in optical fiber waveguides have …

Fiber optics is a transmission technique that uses electrical signals to modulate a light
source and thereby produce an optical signal proportional to the electrical signal. These …

Recent progress in lightwave systems research is reviewed with special emphasis on high-
bit-rate transmission over long distances. The limits imposed by the single-mode fiber as …

Recent experiments have demonstrated the feasibility of both low-and high-speed 800 nm
transmission on 1300 nm optimized single-mode fiber. Such a system is attractive for the …

In recent years the demonstrated transmission capacity of single-mode fibers has increased
at over 4 dB per year. This progress has led to numerous systems experiments with …

This review discusses the requirements and constraints on components for long-wavelength
monomode systems. In particular it critically reviews the current status of fibre, splicing …

This book covers a wide range of technical issues relating to lightwave technologies using
high coherence lightwaves. Electromagnetic wave communication started when the first …