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Fiber-Optic Transmission

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Fiber-optic transmission can be implemented wherever coaxial cable or wire-pair transmission is used. Its areas of present and future application extend all the way from the subscriber loop1 to transoceanic cables.2

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Much of the material of this chapter is taken from B. E. Keiser, “Wideband Communications Systems,” Course Notes, © 1990.

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Keiser, B.E., Strange, E. (1995). Fiber-Optic Transmission. In: Digital Telephony and Network Integration. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1787-0_10

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