Lin Chinlon. Optoelectronic Technology and Lightwave Communications Systems

Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1989. — 773 p. — ISBN: 978-94-011-7037-6.Ever since the invention of the transistor, semiconductor-based microelectronics has made a revolutionary impact on the information society, as evident from the widespread application of microprocessor-based technology in our modern society.
The next wave of modern information technology, after transistors and microelectronics, is that oflasers and micro-optoelectronics. Optoelectronics, or optical electronics, based on lasers and related modern optical technology, has also become a very important field of science and technology in the past 20 years.
Electronics or microelectronics deals with (micro)electronic devices and components for generation, transmission, and processing of electronic signals. In contrast, in optoelectronics we deal with optoelectronic devices and components for the generation, transmission, and processing of lightwave signals. It is the interaction of lightwaves (photons) with matter that shows the uniqueness of optoelectronic technology; optical absorption and scattering, optical gain and amplification, material and waveguide dispersion, nonlinear optical effects, etc., are very much dependent on the material's intrinsic properties and the lightwave propagation effects.
This book focuses on the "micro-optoelectronic" technology of optical fibers and semiconductor lasers, as well as the applications in lightwave systems based on these technologies. The organization of the book should allow the reader to either go through the book sequentially or to go to a particular subject of interest, read it, and then come back to the other chapters for a broader coverage of the related topics.
The book is divided into seven parts:
Optical Fiber Waveguides (Chapters 1-5)
Fiber-Joining Technology and Passive Optical Components (Chapters 6-7)
Semiconductor Laser Sources and Photodetectors (Chapters 8 -14 )
Optical Transmitters and Receivers (Chapters 15-16)
Applications of Optoelectronics in Lightwave Systems (Chapters 17-22)
Future Optoelectronic Technology and Transmission Systems (Chapters 23-24)
Impacts on the Information Society (Chapter 25).
The readers are assumed to have a physics or engineering background (B.S. degree or above), to have taken an introductory course in lasers and optical electronics, and to have an interest in optoelectronic technology and lightwave system applications such as optical communications and optoelectronic information transfer, processing, and storage. Most of fiber-optic engineers, communication engineers, optoelectronic scientists and engineers, and graduate students in engineering and physics can benefit from such a broad coverage of the key technologies and system applications. This is not an introductory book-there are at least ten such books in print in that category-but is an intermediate-to-advanced level book on lightwave technology and systems. For technology such as optoelectronics and lightwave systems which are found in more and more advanced applications, introductory books may not be enough to meet the needs of many in the field. In this book readers can choose the level at which they want to utilize this book, because the fundamentals are reviewed first; the more advanced topics which bring the readers close to the state of the art are then discussed.