00979nam a22001457a 4500008004100000020001500041050001800056100001700074245004900091260003500140300003100175500002000206505058900226650001800815120823t        xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a0072321016  aTK5103.59.K44  aKeiser, Gerd  aOptical fiber communications. /cGerd Keiser  aBoston:bMcgraw - Hill,c2000.  axxi, 602 p.:bill.;c24cm.  aIncludes Index.  aContents: Overview of optical fiber communications -- Optical fibers: structures, waveguiding, and fabrication -- Signal degradation in optical fibers -- Optical sources -- Power launching and coupling -- Photodetors -- Optical river operation -- Digital transmission systems -- Analog systems -- WDM concepts and components -- Optical amplifiers -- Optical networks -- Measurements -- Appendixes A: International system of units -- B: Useful mathematics relations -- C: Bessel functions -- D:  Decibels -- E: Topics from communication theory -- F: Factors contributing to dispersion.  aCommunication