The Rewiring Of America The Fiber Optics Revolution

Author : C Chaffee
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780323158923

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The Rewiring of America The Fiber Optics Revolution by C Chaffee Pdf

The Rewiring of America: The Fiber Optics Revolution provides a comprehensive discussion on the progression of fiber optics technology in America. The book discusses several issues concerning the introduction of fiber optics, such as its history, the initial reaction of the public, applications, and possible future of the technology. The text first tackles the essential issues, specifically the history of fiber optics such as its birth, introduction to the public, popular opinions, and the challenges of its implementation. The book explains how several telecommunication corporations use such technology to its full potential to improve their services. Other industries such as computing and the military, which were exploring fiber optics, are also discussed along with applications to different fields, such as medicine, entertainment, transportation, and space exploration. The text also discusses the future of fiber optics, especially the role it will play in American society. The book will be of great use to any readers who are interested in information technology, communication engineering, and similar fields, especially those who are interested in American technology.

Author : C. David Chaffee
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780306469794

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Building the Global Fiber Optics Superhighway by C. David Chaffee Pdf

A re-working of C.D. Chaffee's previously published The Rewiring of America (Academia, 1988), this professional book describes the fiber optics revolution. There have been many changes in the fiber optics field since the book's first publication. These include advances in optical networking; the additional bandwidth created by the Internet and associated data services; liberalization of the global telecommunications industry; and the rewiring of the world's oceans with fiber optics. Building the Global Fiber Optics Superhighway details all these developments. C.D. Chaffee writes: `One thing is clear: as our networks become primarily data-driven, they need to be built differently, to be able to handle data first, but also voice. It is a different way of looking at the world.'

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Information Gatekeepers Inc
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Fiber Optics Yellow Pages by Anonim Pdf

Author : Chai Yeh
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781483289410

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Handbook of Fiber Optics by Chai Yeh Pdf

Dr. Yeh supplies a firm theoretical foundation in such topics as propagation of light through fibers, fiber fabrication, loss mechanisms, and dispersion properties. He then expands from this into such practical areas as fiber splicing, measuring loss in fibers, fiber-based communications networks, remote fiber sensors, and integrated optics. Whether involved in fiber optics research, design, or practical implementation of systems, this handbook will be extremely useful. Here is a comprehensive, "one-stop" reference with state-of-the-art information on fiber optics Included is data on: Optical fibers and fiber materials Light sources and detectors Coupler, LEDs, and other individual components Coherent optics Lasers The development of fiber optics-based telecommunications systems

Author : Christopher H. Sterling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781851097371

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Military Communications by Christopher H. Sterling Pdf

An alphabetically organized encyclopedia that provides both a history of military communications and an assessment of current methods and applications. Military Communications: From Ancient Times to the 21st Century is the first comprehensive reference work on the applications of communications technology to military tactics and strategy—a field that is just now coming into its own as a focus of historical study. Ranging from ancient times to the war in Iraq, it offers over 300 alphabetically organized entries covering many methods and modes of transmitting communication through the centuries, as well as key personalities, organizations, strategic applications, and more. Military Communications includes examples from armed forces around the world, with a focus on the United States, where many of the most dramatic advances in communications technology and techniques were realized. A number of entries focus on specific battles where communications superiority helped turn the tide, including Tsushima (1905), Tannenberg and the Marne (both 1914), Jutland (1916), and Midway (1942). The book also addresses a range of related topics such as codebreaking, propaganda, and the development of civilian telecommunications.

Author : Duwayne R. Anderson,Larry M. Johnson,Florian G. Bell
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780080492360

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Troubleshooting Optical Fiber Networks by Duwayne R. Anderson,Larry M. Johnson,Florian G. Bell Pdf

Troubleshooting Optical Fiber Networks offers comprehensive, state-of-the-art information about time-domain fiber-optic testing. Readers will gain an understanding of how to troubleshoot optical-fiber networks using an optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR), while learning the fundamental principles underlying the operation of these powerful testing instruments. From basic fiber optics and fiber testing, to detailed event-analysis techniques, this book covers the entire spectrum of time-domain optical cable test theory and applications. Only book available focusing solely on OTDR theory and practice Covers the entire spectrum of time-domain optical cable test theory and applications Designed to be accessible to both engineers and system technicians

Author : Rajeev Bansal
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781420007251

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Engineering Electromagnetics by Rajeev Bansal Pdf

Electromagnetics is too important in too many fields for knowledge to be gathered on the fly. Knowing how to apply theoretical principles to the solutions of real engineering problems and the development of new technologies and solutions is critical. Engineering Electromagnetics: Applications provides such an understanding, demonstrating how to apply the underlying physical concepts within the particular context of the problem at hand. Comprising chapters drawn from the critically acclaimed Handbook of Engineering Electromagnetics, this book supplies a focused treatment covering radar, wireless, satellite, and optical communication technologies. It also introduces various numerical techniques for computer-aided solutions to complex problems, emerging problems in biomedical applications, and techniques for measuring the biological properties of materials. Engineering Electromagnetics: Applications shares the broad experiences of leading experts regarding modern problems in electromagnetics.

Author : Jeff Hecht
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780198026761

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City of Light by Jeff Hecht Pdf

City of Light tells the story of fiber optics, tracing its transformation from 19th-century parlor trick into the foundation of our global communications network. Written for a broad audience by a journalist who has covered the field for twenty years, the book is a lively account of both the people and the ideas behind this revolutionary technology. The basic concept underlying fiber optics was first explored in the 1840s when researchers used jets of water to guide light in laboratory demonstrations. The idea caught the public eye decades later when it was used to create stunning illuminated fountains at many of the great Victorian exhibitions. The modern version of fiber optics--using flexible glass fibers to transmit light--was discovered independently five times through the first half of the century, and one of its first key applications was the endoscope, which for the first time allowed physicians to look inside the body without surgery. Endoscopes became practical in 1956 when a college undergraduate discovered how to make solid glass fibers with a glass cladding. With the invention of the laser, researchers grew interested in optical communications. While Bell Labs and others tried to send laser beams through the atmosphere or hollow light pipes, a small group at Standard Telecommunication Laboratories looked at guiding light by transparent fibers. Led by Charles K. Kao, they proposed the idea of fiber-optic communications and demonstrated that contrary to what many researchers thought glass could be made clear enough to transmit light over great distances. Following these ideas, Corning Glass Works developed the first low-loss glass fibers in 1970. From this point fiber-optic communications developed rapidly. The first experimental phone links were tested on live telephone traffic in 1977 and within half a dozen years long-distance companies were laying fiber cables for their national backbone systems. In 1988, the first transatlantic fiber-optic cable connected Europe with North America, and now fiber optics are the key element in global communications. The story continues today as fiber optics spread through the communication grid that connects homes and offices, creating huge information pipelines and replacing copper wires. The book concludes with a look at some of the exciting potential developments of this technology.

Author : Rajeev Bansal
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780203026021

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Handbook of Engineering Electromagnetics by Rajeev Bansal Pdf

Engineers do not have the time to wade through rigorously theoretical books when trying to solve a problem. Beginners lack the expertise required to understand highly specialized treatments of individual topics. This is especially problematic for a field as broad as electromagnetics, which propagates into many diverse engineering fields. The time h

Author : Pierre-A. B‚langer
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 981021491X

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Optical Fiber Theory by Pierre-A. B‚langer Pdf

This book describes the electromagnetic theory for the propagating modes of dielectric guides with the objective of understanding the applications of these guides to a telecommunication system. Every book on classical electromagnetism introduces the metallic waveguides as an example of application of the Maxwell equations with boundary conditions. A few books summarily describe the dielectric guides. Nevertheless, following the applications of these guides in the form of optical fibers, it has become essential for a course on applied electromagnetism to cover this theory and emphasize on the dispersion minimisation which allows an extreme bandwidth. The dispersionless ?solitonic? solution is introduced to inform the reader on this new optical pulse shape which may soon ensure transoceanic communications. The study of the minimisation of the waveguide dispersion leads us, by means of several calculated frames, to the weakly-guiding condition. This essential condition for a large bandwidth fiber leads us to the introduction of the practical LP modes. In order to initiate the reader into integrated optics components, the electromagnetic solution for two coupled planar waveguides is treated in an appendix. Another appendix allows the reader to go through a quick initiation of the geometrical optics theory (essential for the study of graded-index fiber), being the iconal equation and the ray equation starting from Maxwell equation under the short wavelength approximation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Telecommunication
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123768512

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Telecommunications Update by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bela G. Liptak
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1594 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0801982421

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Instrument Engineers' Handbook,(Volume 2) Third Edition by Bela G. Liptak Pdf

This third edition of the Instrument Engineers' Handbook-most complete and respected work on process instrumentation and control-helps you:

Author : Ernest Sternberg
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791411826

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Photonic Technology and Industrial Policy by Ernest Sternberg Pdf

A revolutionary technological development of the late twentieth century, photonics embraces lasers, fiber optics, imaging devices, and optical applications to computing. It affects the fortunes of numerous industries and, other than conventional microelectronics, may now be the leading arena for worldwide technological rivalry. While Japan has seen its photonic industries grow faster than any other high technology sector, the United States, where much of photonics originated, has experienced a declining industrial capability in world markets. Why is the U.S. floundering in this critical new technology? Are market solutions adequate as a national response to such massive technological change? After describing the history and economic implications of photonics, this book places these questions in the context of industrial policy debates about the proper role of government in response to strategic industrial sectors. The author then assesses the U.S. public policy response by examining various government programs directed at photonics. These programs add up to an implicit government photonics policy, but one that is shortsighted, incoherent, and unplanned. Sternberg concludes that it is this failure to plan that explains United States’ retrogression in a critical technology.

Author : Lu Ruan,Ding-Zhu Du
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781461302919

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Optical Networks — Recent Advances by Lu Ruan,Ding-Zhu Du Pdf

With the rapid growth of bandwidth demand from network users and the advances in optical technologies, optical networks with multiterabits per-second capacity has received significant interest from both researchers and practitioners. Optical networks deployment raises a number of challenging problems that require innovative solutions, including net work architectures, scalable and fast network management, resource efficient routing and wavelength assignment algorithms, QoS support and scheduling algorithms, and switch and router architectures. In this book, we put together some important developments in this exiting area during last several years. Some of the articles are research papers and some are surveys. All articles were reviewed by two reviewers. The paper, "On Dynamic Wavelength Assignment in WDM Optical Networks," by Alanyali gives an overview of some issues in the analy sis and synthesis of dynamic wavelength assignment policies for optical WDM networks and illustrates a new method of analysis. The paper by Ellinas and Bala, "Wavelength Assignment Algorithms for WDM Ring Architectures," presents two optimal wavelength assignment algorithms that assign the minimum number of wavelengths between nodes on WDM rings to achieve full mesh connectivity. In the paper, "Optimal Placement of Wavelength Converters in WDM Networks for Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems," Jia et al.

Author : Frederic M. Scherer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674458451

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International High-technology Competition by Frederic M. Scherer Pdf

Innovation, comparative advantage, and R & D competition; Case study evidence on R&D reactions; Imports, exports, and intra-industry trade; R&D reactions to import competition.