WDM Technologies: Optical Networks

Today's optical networks rely on WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING, and you should rely on this book to learn why!

Allows engineers working in optical communications (from systems to components) to understand the principles and mechanics of each key component they deal with for optical system design. This book provides comprehensive coverage of key concepts in optical networks and their application in commercial systems.Internet information (which is doubling every six months) travels through optical fibers. Today, optical fibers are being installed where a single fiber has the ability to carry information as much as 200 times faster than was possible just five years ago. This revolutionary capability is being achieved with technology known as wavelength division multiplexing WDM). WDM technology relies on the fact that optical fibers can carry many wavelengths of light simultaneously without interaction between each wavelength. Thus, a single fiber can carry many separate wavelength signals or channels simultaneously. The communications industry is at the onset of new expansion of WDM technology necessary to meet the new demand for bandwidth. WDM Technologies: Optical Networks deals with the Networks facet of this field (present and future).