Ebook: Polarization Optics in Telecommunications
Author: Jay N. Damask (auth.)
- Genre: Technique // Electronics: Telecommunications
- Tags: Laser Technology and Physics Photonics, Applied Optics Optoelectronics Optical Devices, Microwaves RF and Optical Engineering
- Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences 101
- Year: 2005
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
- City: New York
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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The strong investments into optical telecommunications in the late 1990s
resulted in a wealth of new research, techniques, component designs, and
understanding of polarization effects in fiber. Polarization Optics in
Telecommunications brings together recent advances in the field to create a
standard, practical reference for component designers and optical fiber
communication engineers. Beginning with a sound foundation in
electromagnetism, the author offers a dissertation of the spin-vector
formalism of polarization and the interaction of light with media.
Applications discussed include optical isolators, optical circulators,
fiber collimators, and a variety of applied waveplate and prism
combinations. Also included in an extended discussion of polarization-mode
dispersion (PMD) and polarization-dependent loss (PDL), their
representation, behavior, statistical properties, and measurement. This
book draws extensively from the technical and patent literature and is an
up-to-date reference for researchers and component designers in industry
and academia.
The telecommunications bubble of the late 1990's resulted in a wealth of new research, techniques and components design, although the industry-funded research remains scattered and has not been well documented in the technical literature. This book intends bring together recent advances in telecommunications to create a standard, practical reference for component designers and users of telecommunications-grade micro-optics components. Beginning with a history of polarization optics in telecomm applications, the author offers a formalism of the application of spin-vector calculus to polarization optics. Applications discussed include fiber collimators, optical isolators, optical circulators, optical interleavers, and extended discussion of Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD) and its generating instruments and measurement. This bookВ fills a gap in the technical literature, as a reference to researchers and component designers in industry and academia.