Study Topics

The following slides contain references to introductory articles as initial background reading.

CDROMs in Library

Introduction to Fiber Optic Theory and Fiber Structure

Fiber Optic Cable Fiber Optic Connectors, Connectorization and Patch Panels Fiber Optic Testing, Troubleshooting and Documentation Fiber Optic Applications

Fiber Optic LEDs, Lasers, and Detectors

Fiber Optic Couplers, Switches, and Isolators Fiber Optic Installation Fiber Optic Safety Plastic Optical Fiber Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing Fiber Optic System Design History of Fiber Optics Fiber Optic Splicing and Splice Closures

Topics
MEMS Receivers Transmitters Optical Amplifiers Planar Waveguides Gigabit Ethernet WDM Fibres Solitons Multiplexing Measurements Optical PONs Optical packet switching Component manufacture AWGs ROADMs Optical Cross Connects Photonic Crystals MANs and WANs

MEMS
Silicon Micromachines for Lightwave Networks: Little Machines with a Big Future, OPN Trends 1 14-15 (2001) Lightwave Micromachines for Optical Networks, Optics & Photonics News 12-3 6065 (2001) Tunable MEMS Devices for Optical Networks, Optics & Photonics News 14-3 42-49 (2003)

Tx/Rx
VCSELs Go the Distance, Optics & Photonics News 13-3 44-47 (2002) Coarse WDM Transceivers, Optics & Photonics News 13-3 S-8 (2002) Photodiode Front Ends, Optics & Photonics News 12-4 44-47 (2001) Novel Fiber Lasers and Applications, Optics & Photonics News, 14-3 38-41 (2003)

Optical Amplifiers
Broadband Raman Amplifiers, Optics & Photonics News 13-7 52-56 The Role of Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers, Optics & Photonics News 12-3 36-43 (2001) Evolution of Optical Amplifiers, Optics & Photonics News 13-8 36-39 (2002) The Dynamics of Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers: Modeling and Applications Optics & Photonics News 14-7 42-48 (2003)

Planar Waveguides

Gigabit Ethernet
Gigabit ethernet technology and applications, Mark Norris, Boston, Mass., London, Artech House, 2003, 004.68 NOR

WDM
The Processing Power of Light, Optics & Photonics News 13-3 38-43 (2002) Multiple Optical Carrier Generation From a A Supercontinuum Source, Optics & Photonics News 13-3 48-52 (2002) Lambda-Level Mesh Networks, Optics & Photonics News 12-6 40-43 (2001) The future of wavelength-division multiplexing, OPN Trends 1 4 (2001) WDM Terabit Technologies with High Spectral Efficiency, Optics & Photonics News 12-3 56-59 (2001)

WDM
The Evolution of SONET/SDH Over WDM, Optics & Photonics News 14-3 32-37 (2003)

Fibres
Too much Fibre?, Optics & Photonics News 13-3 32-37 (2002) Chromatic Dispersion and Polarization-Mode Dispersion: Managing Key Limitations in Optical Communication Systems, Optics & Photonics News 13-3 S-16 (2002) The Fibre Story, OPN Trends 1 20-23 (2001)

Solitons
Optical Solitons in Fibres, Optics & Photonics News 13-2 33-37 (2002) Govind P. Agrawal, Fiber-optic communication systems, 3rd edition John Wiley & Sons, 2002

Multiplexing
Ultrahigh-Speed Optical Time-Division Multiplexing Transmission, OPN Trends 1 1619 (2001) Optical Code-Division Multiplexing, Optics & Photonics News 12-3 50-55 (2001)

Measurements
New Developments in the Analysis of HighSpeed Optical Communication Signals, Optics & Photonics News 13-3 S-4 (2002) Optical Metrology for WDM, Optics & Photonics News 12-3 44-49 (2001) Testing DWDM components for Loss and Dispersion Optics & Photonics News 14-7 3641 (2003)

PONs
Fibre to the Home: Why the Last Mile is Truly the Hardest, Optics & Photonics News, 14-3 26-31 (2003)

Optical Packet Switching

All-optical Label Swapping for the Future Internet, Optics & Photonics News 13-3 22-25 (2002)

Component Manufacture
Reliability Methodologies for Fibre-Optic Components, Optics & Photonics News 13-5 34-39 (2002)

Arrayed Waveguides
Arrayed Waveguide Grating Technology, Optics & Photonics News 13-6 38-43 (2002)

ROADMs

Optical Cross Connects

Photonic Crystals
Microstructured Optical Fibres, Optics & Photonics News 13-9 38-43 (2002) Nonlinear Photonic Crystals, Optics & Photonics News 13-7 48-51 (2002) Photonic Crystals: An Engineering Perspective, Optics & Photonics News 13-6 16-19 (2002) Photonic Crystal Fibres: New Solution in Fibre Optics, Optics & Photonics News 13-3 26-31 (2002)

MANs and WANs

Developing Efficient, High-Capacity Metropolitan Area Networks, OPN Trends 1 813 (2001) Global Undersea Cable Networks, Optics & Photonics News 12-3 32-35 (2001)

Tunable Lasers
Ramaswami, Sivarajan - Optical Networks pages 178-186 Photonics Spectra Sept 2002, Pages 75-80 - Widely Tunable Lasers Ready to Lock and Roll, Annie Lindstrom (freelance journalist) Fibresystems Europe June 2002, Page 42 - Tunable VCSELs eye up metro and access Fibresystems Europe April 2002, Pages 24-26 - Tunable lasers lock on as opportunity knocks, Jens Buus, Gayton Photonics. Europhotonics Aug/Sept 2002, Pages 48-49 - Tunable laser applications take different routes, Kevin Affolter, Agility Communications.