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Organized into nine chapters, this book begins with a discussion of planar dielectric waveguide and proceeds to discuss optical fibre and the propagation of light through it. It also covers Erbium Doped Fibre Amplifier (EDFA), semiconductor optical sources and detectors, fibre optic communication systems, and fibre optic measurements.
In the Second Edition, lucid presentation of the text has been maintained without compromising on the comprehension of the subject. Two new chapters on “advanced modulation formats for fibre optic communication systems” and “surface plasmon polaritons and photonic crystals” have been included which discuss topics such as fibre optic coupler, coherent optical communication, BER performance of coherent optical communication systems, differential phase modulation schemes with direct detection, surface plasmon polariton and photonic crystal. Besides, a number of chapters have been significantly revised.
This book is primarily intended as a text for undergraduate students of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, and Telecommunication Engineering. The book would also prove to be of immense benefit to postgraduate students of Physics and those preparing for AMIE and AMIETE exams.
Key features
• Lucid discussion of concepts, ensuring easy comprehensibility of even advanced topics to undergraduate students.
• Numerical problems forming an integral part of the book, making it application-oriented.
• Solutions to chapter-end numerical problems provided at the end of the book.
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About the author
M. SATHISH KUMAR, Ph.D., is Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Karnataka. Earlier, he has served as a faculty member in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Dr. T.M.A. Pai Polytechnic, Manipal. He has also worked with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Seoul National University for a period of three years as a Research Assistant Professor, first under the ISEF program of the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies and later under the BK21 program.
His areas of interest include Optical and Wireless Communication Systems and Nanophotonics. He has authored/ co-authored nearly 50 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He has also authored a textbook on Fundamentals of Optical Fibre Communication, 2nd ed., published by PHI Learning, and two book chapters. Besides, Dr. Kumar is an associate member of the Institution of Engineers (India) and he has acted as a reviewer for several technical journals.
