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An optical fiber communications system, in much the same way as its more conventional relatives, requires an optical source which provides the information “carrier”, a means for modulating a suitable parameter of the carrier, a channel for propagation (the fiber), and a scheme for detecting the carrier at the receiver end. When sources such as light-emitting or laser diodes are used, modulation is simply a matter of suitably varying the drive current. On the other hand, with sources such as fiber or solid state (e.g. Nd-YAG) lasers, a modulator external to the active material is normally required. At the receiver end, the modulation is normally detected by using photosensitive p-n junctions of various types. It is then obvious that, besides propagation effects in the fiber (to be treated in Chapt.3), we are also interested in sources, modulators, and detectors.
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Sharma, A.B., Halme, S.J., Butusov, M.M. (1981). Generation, Modulation, and Detection. In: Optical Fiber Systems and Their Components. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 24. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-38471-7_2
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