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Study Topics
The following slides contain
references to introductory articles as
initial background reading.
CDROMs in Library
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Introduction to Fiber Optic Theory and Fiber Structure
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Fiber Optic Cable
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Fiber Optic Connectors, Connectorization and Patch Panels
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Fiber Optic Testing, Troubleshooting and Documentation
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Fiber Optic Applications
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Fiber Optic LEDs, Lasers, and Detectors
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Fiber Optic Couplers, Switches, and Isolators
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Fiber Optic Installation
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Fiber Optic Safety
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Plastic Optical Fiber
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Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
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Fiber Optic System Design
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History of Fiber Optics
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Fiber Optic Splicing and Splice Closures
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MEMS
Receivers
Transmitters
Optical Amplifiers
Planar Waveguides
Gigabit Ethernet
WDM
Fibres
Solitons
Multiplexing
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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 133 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.