Optical Networks: A Practical Perspective - Part 40. This book describes a revolution within a revolution, the opening up of the capacity of the now-familiar optical fiber to carry more messages, handle a wider variety of transmission types, and provide improved reliabilities and ease of use. In many places where fiber has been installed simply as a better form of copper, even the gigabit capacities that result have not proved adequate to keep up with the demand. The inborn human voracity for more and more bandwidth, plus the growing realization that there are other flexibilities to be had by imaginative use of the fiber, have led people. | 360 Transmission System Engineering Zir98 M. Zirngibl. Analytical model of Raman gain effects in massive wavelength division multiplexed transmission systems. Electronics Letters 34 789 1998. ZO94 J. Zhou and M. J. O Mahony. Optical transmission system penalties due to fiber polarization mode dispersion. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 6 10 1265-1267 Oct. 1994. Zys96 J. L. Zyskind et al. Fast power transients in optically amplified multiwavelength optical networks. In OFC 96 Technical Digest 1996. Postdeadline paper PD31. Networks This Page Intentionally Left .
