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Nonlinearity in optical fibre communications

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Nonlinear Optics in Signal Processing

Part of the book series: Engineering Aspects of Lasers Series ((EALS,volume 49))

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The development of optical fibre telecommunications during the period from the mid-1970s onwards has been one of the great success stories of modern technology. The introduction of optics into telecommunications systems is having an effect just as profound as that due to the introduction of semiconductor electronics in earlier years. With little doubt, the advent of optical fibre communication has also been the most important stimulus for the rapid expansion of effort worldwide in nonlinear optics during the 1980s decade and into the 1990s. Much of this effort has been directed towards the development of new nonlinear materials—low-dimensional semiconductor structures, organic polymers, photorefractive materials, and many others—as discussed elsewhere in this book. However, it was also discovered that the optical fibres development for optical communication can themselves exhibit nonlinear properties.

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    Robert W. Eason (Senior Lecturer in Optics) (Senior Lecturer in Optics)

  2. Center for Research in Electro-Optics and Lasers, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA

    Alan Miller (Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering) (Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering)

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Cotter, D. (1993). Nonlinearity in optical fibre communications. In: Eason, R.W., Miller, A. (eds) Nonlinear Optics in Signal Processing. Engineering Aspects of Lasers Series, vol 49. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1560-5_9

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