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    <title>Principles and applications of optical communications</title>
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    <namePart>Ming-Kang Liu, Max.</namePart>
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    <dateIssued>c1996</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">1996</dateIssued>
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    <extent>xix, 1004 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Contents: Introduction -- From point-to-point to networking -- Light sources -- Optical fibers -- Light detection -- Noise in optical communications -- Incoherent detection -- Networking -- Time-domain medium access -- Wavelength-domain medium access -- Subcarrier multiplexing -- Photonic switching -- Signal processing: Direct modulation -- Distributed-feedback laser diodes and modulation -- External modulation -- Coherent detection -- Timing recovery and line coding -- Optical amplification -- Optical fibre solition transmission -- Appendix A: Important physical and mathematical constants -- B: International system of units -- C: Important physical constants of compounds -- D: Important variable definitions -- E: Useful mathematical formulas.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Max Ming-Kang Liu.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
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    <topic>Optical communications</topic>
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