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Ultrahigh-Speed Optical Transmission Technology

  • Detailed description of all the aspects of ultrahigh-speed optical transmission technology

Part of the book series: Optical and Fiber Communications Reports (OFCR, volume 3)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
  2. Introduction to ultra-high-speed optical transmission technology

    • Hans-Georg Weber, Masataka Nakazawa
    Pages 1-20
  3. Semiconductor mode-locked lasers as pulse sources for high bit rate data transmission

    • Leaf A. Jiang, Erich P. Ippen, Hiroyuki Yokoyama
    Pages 21-51
  4. Ultra-high-speed LiNbO3 modulators

    • Kazuto Noguchi
    Pages 89-101
  5. High-speed optical signal processing using semiconductor optical amplifiers

    • Colja Schubert, Reinhold Ludwig, Hans-Georg Weber
    Pages 103-140
  6. Optical signal processing using nonlinear fibers

    • Shigeki Watanabe
    Pages 141-164
  7. Ultrafast photodetectors and receivers

    • Heinz-Gunter Bach
    Pages 165-216
  8. Higher-order dispersion compensation using phase modulators

    • Mark D. Pelusi, Akira Suzuki
    Pages 301-321
  9. PMD-compensation techniques

    • Harald Rosenfeldt, Ernst Brinkmeyer
    Pages 323-346
  10. Application of electroabsorption modulators for high-speed transmission systems

    • Eugen Lach, Karsten Schuh, Michael Schmidt
    Pages 347-377
  11. New optical device technologies for ultrafast OTDM systems

    • T. Sakurai, N. Kobayashi
    Pages 425-452
  12. Optical sampling techniques

    • Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst, Hans-Georg Weber
    Pages 453-481

About this book

Ultrahigh-speed optical transmission technology is a key technology for increasing the communication capacity. In optical fibre networks, the number of wavelength channels and the bit rate per wavelength channel, i.e. the TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) bit rate, determine the transmission capacity. Currently, TDM bit rates of more than 40 Gbit/s require optical signal processing (Optical Time Division Multiplexing, OTDM). OTDM bit rates of up to 1.2 Tbit/s have already been reported. The devices developed for ultrahigh-speed optical transmission are not limited to communication applications only. They are key devices for high-speed optical signal processing, i.e. monitoring, measurement and control, and will thus give a wide technological basis for innovative science and technology. All these aspects of ultrahigh-speed optical transmission technology are described in detail in this book.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Berlin, Germany

    Hans-Georg Weber

  • Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Miyagiken, Aoba-Ka, Japan

    Masataka Nakazawa

About the editors

H.G.Weber: Professor of Physics at the Technical University of Berlin and head of a research group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institute, in Berlin, Germany.

M. Nakazawa: Professor of Broadband Communication Engineering at the Research Institute of Electrical Communication of Tohoku University, Japan

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