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A fiber-optic communication system is composed of one or multiple optical links using the modulation of light to transmit the data. For technical reasons, two-level (binary) intensity modulation is almost exclusively used in today’s systems. We mentioned before that for best performance the system is operated in one of the low-absorption regions in the infrared domain around 850 nm, 1,310 nm or 1,550 nm (Figure 3.1). The absorption peaks are due to OH- impurities in the fiber, nowadays mostly removed in the manufacturing process.
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Muller, P., Leblebici, Y. (2007). Basic Concepts. In: CMOS Multichannel Single-Chip Receivers for Multi-Gigabit Optical Data Communications. Analog Circuits and Signal Processing. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5912-4_3
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