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This Tutorial Text provides an overview of design principles for receivers used in optical communication systems, intended for practicing engineers. The author reviews technologies used to construct optical links and illustrates the flow of system performance specifications into receiver requirement...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alexander, Stephen B.
Corporate Author: Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bellingham, Wash. (1000 20th St. Bellingham WA 98225-6705 USA) : SPIE, 1997.
Series:IEE telecommunications series ; 37.
SPIE tutorial texts ; TT22.
Subjects:
Optical communications > Equipment and supplies.
Optical detectors > Design and construction.
Optoelectronic devices > Design and construction.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This Tutorial Text provides an overview of design principles for receivers used in optical communication systems, intended for practicing engineers. The author reviews technologies used to construct optical links and illustrates the flow of system performance specifications into receiver requirements. Photodetector fundamentals, associated statistics, characteristics and performance issues are presented, together with a tutorial on noise analysis and the specific techniques needed to model optical receivers.
Item Description:"SPIE digital library."
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xix, 314 pages) : illustrations.
Also available in print version.
Format:Mode of access: World Wide Web.
System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780819480477 (electronic)
DOI:10.1117/3.219402
Access:Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.