Summary: "This book provides a comprehensive account of fiber-optic communication systems. The 3rd edition of this book is used worldwide as a textbook in many universities. This 4th edition incorporates recent advances that have occurred, in particular two new chapters. One deals with the advanced modulation formats (such as DPSK, QPSK, a
Optics
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Subject(s): Optics
Contents:A brief history -- Wave motion -- Electromagnetic theory, photons, and light -- The propagation of light -- Geometrical optics -- More on geometrical optics -- The duperposition of waves -- Polarization -- Interference -- Diffraction -- Fourier optics -- Basics of coherence Theory -- Modern optics: lasers and ot