Digital Optical Communications

This book surveys the application of digital communication techniques to optical communication technology, minimizing unwieldy mathematical analysis and instead emphasizing operation principles. The models provided in the book will help researchers and engineers develop optical communications systems which employ new modulation formats in MATLAB. Because there are no optical communications blocks in MATLAB Simulink, one of the main objectives of the book is to explain the operational principles of optical communications blocks as examples. After a review of the fundamentals of modern communications, the book focuses on enhancements to digital technology used in ultra-high capacity networks. It details principles of digital communications and digital modulation formats in optical and photonic transmission technology, within the contexts of experimental and theoretical works and modeling. Digital modulation techniques are applied to optical communications systems and networks, in areas such as binary and quadrature amplitude shift keying, phase shift keying, differential shift keying, continuous phase shift keying, frequency shift keying, multilevel modulation, and multi-subcarriers. Case studies and numerous examples are included. Binh teaches in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Monash University. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)