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DWDM Fundamentals, Components, and Applications

Artech House Editor

This leading-edge resource provides you with comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of the
principles, technologies, standards and applications of Dense Wavelength Division
Multiplexing (DWDM). Essential reading for technical and business professionals alike, this
volume will enable you to: understand how DWDM components, devices and networks
operate, examine the configuration and design trade-offs of current DWDM components
and systems, assess the latest standards for optical network management, discover recent
technological developments, and decide the direction and most promising areas for future
R&D in the field. With an authoritative and balanced presentation of history, theory,
information on WDM components, and a focus on practical system applications, the work
is an invaluable technical resource and research tool for design and manufacturing
engineers, optical network designers, and postgraduate students. The book also gives you
an overview of the latest, innovative applications of DWDM, particularly in
telecommunication transmission links, advanced transport architectures and others

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Basic Principles and Background
Chapter 3: Dense WDM and Demultiplexers
Chapter 4: Sources and Wavelength Converters for DWDM
Chapter 5: WDM and Optical Amplification
Chapter 6: Routers, Cross-Connects, and Add/Drops
6.2: Wavelength Conversion
6.3: Network Architecture Classification
6.4: Some Definitions Used for Interconnection Performance Characterization
6.5: Interoperability in Optical Routed DWDM Networks
6.6: Space Switches
6.7: Passive Wavelength Router
6.8: Optical Cross-Connector
6.9: OADMs
References
Chapter 7: WDM Limits Caused by Optical Nonlinearities in Optical Fibers
Chapter 8: Application of DWDM to Telecommunication Networks
Chapter 9: Conclusion

Preface

This book is intended for people interested in the future of telephone, data,video, and
Internet communication, and to graduate students, scientists,designers, development
engineers, and technicians who want to learn moreabout dense wavelength division
multiplexing (DWDM). The readersworking in the field of telecommunications, such as
 components and systemsdesigners, may find useful references along with the text. I hope
this bookwill also be useful to scientists and engineers working in the field of
optics,spectroscopy, optronics, electro-optics, and micro/nano technology whowould be
willing to offer their expertise to solve some of the still-open prob-lems in
telecommunications. Conversely, this book may help them to applyto different fields some
of the tremendous progress and investments alreadymade in the optical
telecommunication field. Perhaps this book will be alsouseful to marketing managers who
want to get information and prospects onthe future of optical networks.It is expected that
the book will be mostly useful in understandingcomponents and principles used in existing
and/or in next generations ofDWDM optical telecommunication networks. I began research
on WDMcomponents more than 20 years ago in a company devoted to advanced opti-cal
instrumentation. I had the opportunity to participate in the WavelengthTime Division
Multiplexing (WTDM) research group within the Researchand Development in Advanced
Communication Technologies in Europe(RACE) program, and to the Wavelength-agile
Optical Transport andAccess Network (WOTAN) and Switchless Optical Network for
AdvancedTransport Architecture Advanced Communications Technologies and
Services (SONATA) groups, within the Advanced Communications Tech-nologies and
Services (ACTS) program, in the field of DWDM. This was anideal platform to participate in
the dreams and in the successes of many ofthe most important European
telecommunication groups. As a consultant,I also had the opportunity to participate in the
challenge of HighWaveOptical Technologies, a new company successfully exploiting the
opportuni-ties in the DWDM component and subsystem market.In 1993, I published my
first book entitledWavelength Division Multi-plexing. Of course, accelerated research
efforts within the international com-munity have produced many new concepts and devices
in the field. Thisbook could not be a revised edition of my first work. I had to analyze
andsummarize many new developments, keeping only when necessary some ofthe basic
material of the first work.

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