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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Optical fiber communications</title>
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    <namePart>Keiser, Gerd</namePart>
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    <publisher>Mcgraw - Hill</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2000</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxi, 602 p.: ill.; 24cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Contents: 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.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Gerd Keiser</note>
  <note>Includes Index.</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Communication</topic>
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  <identifier type="isbn">0072321016</identifier>
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