DWDM fundamentals components, and applications

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.

Introduction. Basic Principles and Background-Wavelength Division Multiplexing: Basic Principles. History of Wavelength Division Multiplexing in a Few Words. Wavelength Division Multiplexing and Time Division Multiplex. Wavelength Domain and Separation Between Channels. Wavelength Allocation, ITU Grid. Optical Wavelength/Optical Frequency Conversion. How Many Channels? Some Definitions. Solitons. Dense Wavelength Division Multipliers and Demultiplexers-Passive Components, the Current Choices Available. Arrayed Waveguide Gratings. Fiber Bragg Gratings. Optical Multidielectric Filters. Diffraction Gratings. Cascaded Mach-Zehnder Interferometers. Other Devices. Methods for Broadening and Flattening the Spectral Shape of the Transmission Channels of Grating Wavelength Division Multiplexers. Sources and Wavelength Converters for DWDM-Introduction. Semiconductor Lasers. Glass-Doped Based Lasers with Narrow-Linewidths. Spectral Slicing of Sources. Wavelength Converters. Wavelength Division Multiplexing and Optical Amplification-Introduction. Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOA). Brillouin Scattering Amplifiers. Raman Amplifier. Rare Earth-Doped Fiber Optic Amplifiers. Hybrid Raman/Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifiers. Erbium Doped Planar Waveguides. Routers, Cross Connects and Add/Drops-Introduction. Wavelength Conversion. Network Architecture Classification. Some Definitions Used for Interconnection Performance Characterization. Interoperability in Optical Routed DWDM Networks. Space Switches. Passive Wavelength Router(PWR). Optical Cross Connector (OXC). Optical Add/Drop Multiplexers. WDM Limits Caused by Optical Nonlinearities in Optical Fibers-Introduction. Self Phase Modulation (SPM). Cross Phase Modulation(XPM). Four Wave Mixing (FWM). Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS). Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS). Conclusions. Additional Note. Some Applications of Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing-Some of the Earlier Applications. Today,s DWDM Networks. Long Distance Transmission. Other Applications. Conclusions