NOTAS: | "A self-sufficient senior and first year graduate text keying its topics to the newest technologies in lightwave development, and optical system and networking design and integration. The volume provides background and design rationale in light sources and detection, noise in optical communications, incoherent detection, networking, signal processing, timing recovery and line coding, and optical amplification and fiber soliton transmission. The appendices supply important physical and mathematical constants, variable definitions, and mathematical formulas." |