{"product_id":"optical-communication-theory-and-techniques-enrico-forestieri-9780387231327","title":"Optical Communication Theory and Techniques","description":"Since the advent of optical communications, a greattechnological effort has been devoted to the exploitation of the huge bandwidth of optical fibers. Sta- ing from a few Mb\/s single channel systems, a fast and constant technological development has led to the actual 10 Gb\/s per channel dense wavelength - vision multiplexing (DWDM) systems, with dozens of channels on a single fiber. Transmitters and receivers are now ready for 40 Gb\/s, whereas hundreds of channels can be simultaneously amplified by optical amplifiers. Nevertheless, despite such a pace in technological progress, optical c- munications are still in a primitive stage if compared, for instance, to radio communications: the widely spread on-off keying (OOK) modulation format is equivalent to the rough amplitude modulation (AM) format, whereas the DWDM technique is nothing more than the optical version of the frequency - vision multiplexing (FDM) technique. Moreover, adaptive equalization, ch- nel coding or maximum likelihood detection are still considered something \"exotic\" in the optical world. This is mainly due to the favourable char- teristics of the fiber optic channel (large bandwidth, low attenuation, channel stability, ...), which so far allowed us to use very simple transmission and detection techniques.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Enrico Forestieri\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0387231323\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780387231327\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Springer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"Enrico Forestieri","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44119648338175,"sku":"9780387231327","price":169.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e89b860b-de9d-41f5-bfc3-4ec4eed28426.jpg?v=1687410279","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/optical-communication-theory-and-techniques-enrico-forestieri-9780387231327","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}