Optoelectronic Devices and Systems: Volume 1 - Softcover

This textbook offers a completely up-to-date and indepth introduction to the principles and applications of optoelectronic devices and systems. The text gives a detailed description of optical fibre waveguides, optical fibre cables and their characteristics, manufacturing process and drawing of optical fibres. In addition, it deals with photon sources, photon detectors, fibre optics as a medium and LAN and WAN systems, short and long haul optical fibre communication systems, electro-optic modulators and their characteristics.

S.C. GUPTA (Ph.D.) is Director, Northern India Engineering College, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. A Post-doctoral Fellow of the University of Hull (UK), he has published several research papers in internationally reputed journals and authored one book on optical fibre communication. His areas of specialization include non-linear optics, optical fibre communication, and LAN/WAN optical fibre communication.