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Description This book provides a detailed overview of the evolution of undersea communications systems, with emphasis on the most recent breakthroughs of optical submarine cable technologies based upon Wavelength Division Multiplexing, optical amplification, new-generation optical fibers, and high-speed digital electronics. The role played by submarine-communication systems in the development of high-speed networks and associated market demands for multiplying Internet and broadband services is also covered. Importance of This Topic This book will fill the gap between highly specialized papers from large international conferences and broad-audience technology review updates. The book provides a full overview of the evolution in the field and conveys the dimension of the large undersea projects. In addition, the book uncovers the myths surrounding marine operations and installations in that domain, which have remained known so far to only very few specialists.
I. Introduction : Introduction to submarine fiber communication / José Chesnoy and jean Jerpahagnon -- Historical overview of submarine communication systems / Gérard Fouchard -- II. Submarine system design : Basics of digital optical communications / Philippe Gallion -- Optical amplification / Dominique Bayart -- Ultra-long-haul submarine transmission / Olivier Gautheron and Omar Ait Sab -- Unrepeatered transmission -/ Eric Brandon and J.-P. Blondel -- Polarization effects in long-haul undersea systems / C.R. Menyuk [and others] -- Nonlinear transmission techniques and solitons / S. Wabnitz -- III. Submarine equipment : Submerged plant / Neville J. Hazell and Christopher E. Little -- Terminal equipment / Katsuo Suzuki -- Networked architectures for submarine systems / Howard Kidorf -- Submarine fiber / Scott R. Bickham and Michael B. Cain -- Cable technology / Jean François Libert and Gary Waterworth -- Marine and maintenance (from inception to the grave) / John Horne.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press, ©2002
90101:90101 Elsevier Science & Technology