Enabling Technologies

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vi Contents www.allitebooks.com 4.3 Receiver 4.3.1 Overview of Common Receiver Components 4.4 The Optical Fiber 4.4.1 Short Introduction to the Waveguide Principle 4.4.2 Description of Optical Single-Mode Fibers 4.4.3 Special Fiber Types 4.5 Optical Amplifiers 4.5.1 Introduction to Optical Amplifiers 4.5.2 Principle of Operation 4.5.3 Gain Saturation 4.5.4 Noise 4.5.5 Gain Dynamics 4.5.6 Optical Fiber and Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers 4.5.7 Raman Amplifiers 4.5.8 Lasers and Amplifiers 4.6 Optical Filters and Multiplexers 4.6.1 Introduction 4.6.2 Optical (De-)Multiplexing Devices 4.6.3 Overall Assessment of (De-)Multiplexing Techniques 4.6.4 Optical Filters 4.6.5 Tunable Filters References