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Title: Understanding Optical Communications by Harry J. R. Dutton ISBN: 0-13-020141-3 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 15 January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $64.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting stuff
Comment: If you've ever wondered how optical communications works, from the nature and physics of fiber optics to digital wavelength mutliplexing, this is the book to have.
Rating: 4
Summary: Thumbs up from lambda land
Comment: This book is an excellent introduction to optical networking for applications engineers (AE's) and systems engineers (SE's) who need to get up speed on optics but don't need to wade through 150+ pages of graduate level mathematics. Dutton is required reading at several optical startups that are re-treading internetworking SE's into optics guys. The downside is the publication date--quite a while in networking. Overall analysis: best introduction for technical guys that is currently available.
Rating: 5
Summary: A really excellent book on optical communications
Comment: This book is an overlooked gem in the optical communications space.It's not quite as technical as Ramaswami and Sivarajan's "Optical Networks" but very understandable and complete. It's an excellent way for a beginner, even someone who already knows non-optical communications, to begin learning about the optical communications space.
It covers all the optical components, including fiber characteristics, LEDs, lasers, photodetectors, optical amplifiers and more. If you're looking for a good introduction to optical communications, this is it.
The only negative is one common to all books on optical communications. The book was actually written in 1998 and earlier. While much hasn't changed, much has. So take the knowledge that's here but continue studying.
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Title: Optical Networks: A Practical Perspective (Second Edition) by Rajiv Ramaswami, Kumar Sivarajan ISBN: 1558606556 Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $73.95 |
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Title: Optical Switching and Networking Handbook by Regis J. Bates ISBN: 007137356X Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 16 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: Next Generation Optical Networks: The Convergence of IP Intelligence and Optical Technologies by Peter Tomsu, Christian Schmutzer ISBN: 013028226X Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 27 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Free Space Optics by Heinz Willebrand, Baksheesh Ghuman ISBN: 067232248X Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Fiber Optic Communications (4th Edition) by Joseph C. Palais ISBN: 0138954429 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 07 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $88.00 |
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