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Optical Fibers Research Advances by Jürgen C. Schlesinger (2008, Hardcover)

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ISBN-13: 9781600218668 Illustrated: Yes Item Width: 10.2 in Author: Jürgen C. Schlesinger LCCN: 2007-031168 brand: NOVA Science Publishers, Incorporated Publication Name: Optical Fibers Research Advances Subject Area: Technology & Engineering Dewey Decimal: 621.36/92 Number of Pages: 381 Pages Dewey Edition: 22 LC Classification Number: TK5103.59.S35 2008 ISBN-10: 1600218660 Synopsis: An optical fibre is a glass or plastic fibre designed to guide light along its length by confining as much light as possible in a propagating form. In fibre with large core diameter, the confinement is based on total internal reflection. In smaller diameter core fibres, (widely used for most communication links longer than 200 meters) the confinement relies on establishing a waveguide. Fibre optics is the overlap of applied science and engineering concerned with such optical fibres. Optical fibres are widely used in fibre-optic communication, which permits transmission over longer distances and at higher data rates than other forms of wired and wireless communications. They are also used to form sensors, and in a variety of other applications. The term optical fibre covers a range of different designs including graded-index optical fibres, step-index optical fibres, birefringent polarisation-maintaining fibres and more recently photonic crystal fibres, with the design and the wavelength of the light propagating in the fibre dictating whether or not it will be multi-mode optical fibre or single-mode optical fibre. Because of the mechanical properties of the more common glass optical fibres, special methods of splicing fibres and of connecting them to other equipment are needed. Manufacture of optical fibres is based on partially melting a chemically doped pre-form and pulling the flowing material on a draw tower. Fibres are built into different kinds of cables depending on how they will be used. This new book presents the latest research in the field., An optical fibre is a glass or plastic fibre designed to guide light along its length by confining as much light as possible in a propagating form. In fibre with large core diameter, the confinement is based on total internal reflection. This book presents the latest research in the field. Subject: Fiber Optics, Telecommunications, Electronics / General Language: English gtin13: 9781600218668 Publisher: NOVA Science Publishers, Incorporated Format: Hardcover Publication Year: 2008 Intended Audience: Scholarly & Professional Table Of Content: Evanescent Field Tapered Fiber Optic Biosensors (TFOBS): Fabrication, Antibody Immobilisation and Detection; New Challenges in Raman Amplification for Fibre Communication Systems; Fibre Bragg Gratings in High Birefringence Optical Fibres; Applications of Hollow Optical Fibers in Atom Optics; Advances in Physical Modelling of Ring Lasers; Investigation of Optical Power Budget of Erbium-Doped Fiber; Recent Developments in All-Fibre Devices for Optical Networks; Advances in Optical Differential Phase Shift Keying and Proposalfor an Alternative Receiving Scheme for Optical Differential Octal Phase Shift Keying; A New Generation of Polymer Optical Fibres; Dissipative Solitons in Optical Fiber Systems; Bright-Dark and Double - Humped Pulses in Averaged, Dispersion Managed Optical Fibre Systems; Dynamics and Interactions of Gap Solutions in Hollow Core Phoomic Crystal Fibres; Multi-wave Length Optical Fiber Lasers and Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Ring Lasers; Aging and Reliability of Single-Mode Silica Optical Fibres. Type: Textbook Item Length: 7.1 in Item Weight: 34.9 Oz

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