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Current Systems and Future Trends

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Optical Communications

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In previous chapters, we concentrated on the design and performance of individual components for use in optical links. What we have not yet examined is the overall design of practical links, and it is this that initially concerns us here.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Polytechnic of Huddersfield, UK

    M. J. N. Sibley

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Sibley, M.J.N. (1990). Current Systems and Future Trends. In: Optical Communications. Macmillan New Electronics Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20718-3_7

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