Table of Contents

1. Overview 2. Growth of the Internet 3. Optical Network Architecture Evolution 4.Undersea Communications Systems 5. High Capacity, Ultra-Long Haul Networks 6. Pseudo-Linear Transmission of High-Speed TDM Signals: 40 and 160 Gb/s 7. Dispersion Managed Solitons & Chirped Return to Zero: What is the Difference? 8. Metropolitan Optical Networks 9. The Evolution of Cable TV Networks 10. Optical Access Networks 11. Beyond Gigabit: Development and Application of High Speed Ethernet Technology 12. Photonic Simulation Tools 13. Nonlinear Optical Effects in WDM Transmission 14. Fixed and Tunable Managment of Fiber Chromatic Dispersion 15. Polarization Mode Dispersion 16. Bandwidth Efficient Modulation Formats for Digital Fiber Transmission Systems 17. Error-Control Coding Techniques and Applications 18. Electronic Equalization Techniques for Mitigating Transmission Impairments Index to Volumes IVA and IVB

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Fourth in a respected and comprehensive series
- Authoritative authors from a range of organizations
- Suitable for active lightwave R&D designers, developers, purchasers, operators, students, and analysts
- Lightwave components reviewed in Volume A
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Reviews

'OFT IV belongs in every engineering and technical library, university, military or corporation. It is of high technical quality but would be understood by non-engineers with a relatively high technical knowledge base.' --E-Streams, February 2003