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Title: Fiber-Optic Communication Systems by Govind P. Agrawal ISBN: 0-471-21571-6 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 June, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $99.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.14 (7 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Shame for the 3rd edition
Comment: The 3rd edition is published in 2002, but still has an extensive coverage on Coherent communication and Soliton. What a shame! Anybody knows that coherent communication and Soliton are dead since WDM became commercial deployment in 1996. On other hand, the author did not cover anything applications which are succefully beaten the coherent communication and Solition and are widely applied in the current optical communication systems (e.g., CRZ, DPSK modulation, high capacity DWDM....). It seems the author is not in touch with the industry for many years and is repeating the older and dead topics.
Moreover the software contained in the CD-ROM is completely useless.
Rating: 5
Summary: great book for the right person
Comment: This is GREAT book for people who have at least the basic optics and electrical engineering concepts, even if they dont have technical degrees, and who feel comfortable with the mathematical treatment of a subject, even when they dont understand every little detail. Actually about a third of the book can be understood easily by anyone interested in the subject, but if you cannot "read" mathematics and have never seen logarithms or partial derivatives before, then I recommend "Understanding Fiber Optics" by Hecht or a similar non-mathematical treatment of the subject.
Overall the book follows a very logical pattern in its treatment of the subject. It is an overview-style book, covering the different parts of a fiber-optic communications system individually, and then tying them together (which I thought was the most useful feature of the book). Even though it covers many practial issues, it tends to read more like a physics/optics textbook than an engineering textbook or a lab manual.
In summary if you have the basic optics/e.e. knowledge and are comfortable thinking mathematically, this is a great overview book for you, but if are a first time reader trying to learn about fiber optics, stay away from this book or use it as a second, 'reference' book only.
Rating: 5
Summary: Not for beginners
Comment: To the 2 folks who gave the book a 1 star. It is not a book for people who are new to the industry, people with little mathematical background, or for beginners. The book is more or less straight forward for people who come from physics or optics backgrounds and have had at least 1 year of graduate school. In fact, there are quite a few useful and practical things in this book both for component and systems designers. I have found this book to be excellent both in industry and in academic environments. I highly recommend this book.
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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 Electronics in Modern Communications (Oxford Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering) by Amnon Yariv ISBN: 0195106261 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $102.00 |
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Title: Applications of Nonlinear Fiber Optics by Govind Agrawal, Govind P. Agrawal ISBN: 0120451441 Publisher: Academic Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $89.95 |
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Title: Nonlinear Fiber Optics by Govind Agrawal, Govind P. Agrawal ISBN: 0120451433 Publisher: Academic Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $79.95 |
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Title: Fiber Optic Test and Measurement by Dennis Derickson ISBN: 0135343305 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 15 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $89.93 |
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