General Fiber Optic Introduction
Author: Jeff Hecht Publisher: Prentice Hall; 5 edition (April 19, 2005) This is an introduction to fiber optics utilizing a nontheoretical, nonmathematical approach. This book includes black and white illustrations, diagrams, and a glossary. This book will answer many of your fiber optic questions. Those interested in fiber optic technology in general will find this extensive introductory book easy to read and reference whenever needed. It includes material on optical fiber amplifiers and fiber optic sensors, explains components, concepts, systems, and principles, discusses applications in telephones, LANs, and video. City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics 
Author: Jeff Hecht Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Rev Exp edition (April 1, 2004) Jeff Hecht's goes back 150 years to find the origins of fiber optics. Then he chronicles the many ingenious and determined engineers who fashioned it into a technology that festoons the globe with cables carrying pulses of photons. The author tells a good tale, combining a light journalistic touch with a scholarly knowledge of the industry he has covered for over two decades. This is a comprehensive account of how we got this far in the fiber optic communications technology. Fiber Optic Cable Installation
Author: Bob Chomycz Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (June 22, 2000)Guide to indoor and outdoor fiber optic cable installation. Very good book for technicians, electricians, engineers, and cable installers. This is a step-by-step field guide for fiber optic cable installation. This put-it-in-your-pocket-size manual explains fiber optic cable installation via an effective, illustrated, step-by-step approach. This book gives you diagrams and procedures for installing indoor and outdoor fiber optic cable. It also gives you guidelines on testing, troubleshooting, and maintenance. All major optical fiber types are included. 
Author: Jim Hayes Publisher: Thomson Delmar Learning; 3 edition (July 27, 2005) A practical guide to designers, installers and troubleshooters of fiber optic cable plants and networks. This newly updated edition reflects recent changes in fiber optic technology, marketing, and applications, including wider usage of Fiber To The Home (FTTH) applications and LANs (Local Area Networks). This book provides a comprehensive overview of fiber optics as used in communications systems, including telephone, CATV, and computers. Beginning with a brief history of the development of fiber optics, the third edition progresses from the basics of the technology and its components, to installation and testing. Optical Fiber and Cables Theory
Fundamentals of Optical Fibers 
Author: John A. Buck Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; 2 Sub edition (April 27, 2004) This is a comprehensive, pedagogically consistent introduction to the fundamentals of light propagation in fibers. Offers a balanced presentation of the basics. This textbook covers the fundamentals of optical fibers. It offers readers a timely and consistent introduction to the fundamental principles of light propagation in fibers. The author reviews fundamental wave guiding concepts, the influence of various fiber structures and materials on light transmission, nonlinear light propagation effects occurring in fibers, and various measurement techniques. This book focuses on optical fiber's applications in communication systems. Fiber Optic Testing
Fiber Optic Test and Measurement 
Author: Dennis Derickson Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 1st edition (January 15, 1998) This is the most complete, practical guide to testing fiber optic communication components and systems. Excellent for fiber optic engineers and scientists. It helps the professionals accurately measure and test fiber optic systems, without becoming experts in fiber optic theory. Learn how to characterize all three basic components of a fiber optic communication system: the optical transmitter, fiber medium, and optical receiver. Review each fundamental area of fiber optic measurement, including: - Optical power measurements using several types of photodetectors
- Spectral measurements using diffraction gratings, Michelson interferometers and both heterodyne and homodyne spectrum analysis
- Polarization measurements—increasingly important in high data rate networks that utilize optical amplifiers
- Modulation measurements via frequency and time domain analyses
The book's coverage of advanced fiber technology will be invaluable to professionals implementing or maintaining new optical networks. Learn how to: - Test digital fiber systems to SONET/SDH international standards
- Characterize the behavior of Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) fiber systems
- Test two-port optical devices for insertion loss, reflectivity of components, chromatic and polarization mode dispersion, and the behavior of Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs)
Fiber Optic Communications
Optical Fiber Communications 
Author: Gerd E. Keiser Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education; 3Rev Ed edition (February 1, 2000) This text and reference book presents the fundamental principles for understanding and applying optical fiber technology to modern telecommunication systems. Optical-fiber-based telecommunication networks have become the major information-transmission-system, with high capacity links encircling the globe in both terrestrial and undersea installations. Numerous passive and active optical devices within these links perform complex transmission and networking functions in the optical domain, such as signal amplification, restoration, routing, and switching. This books covers measuring both component and network performance, and modeling and stimulating the behavior of high-capacity networks. Fiber Optics Handbook
OSA Handbook of Optics Volume 4: Fiber Optics and Nonlinear Optics 
Author: Optical Society of America Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (October 27, 2000) This is a a collection of articles that cover various topics in fiber optics and nonlinear optics, such as fiber optics communications, technologies, and systems, solutions, gratings, amplifiers, modulators, and detectors for fiber-optic systems, and optical fiber sections. This handbook's 27 all-new chapters give you access to information concerning every aspect of fiber optics. This volume contains a new index covering all four volumes, extensive chapter glossaries, and current references to guide you to more sources of information. Volume IV: Fiber Optics and Nonlinear Optics includes articles that cover: - Fiber optics communications, technologies, and systems
- Solitons, gratings, amplifiers, modulators, and detectors for fiber-optic systems
- Fiber-based couplers, isolators, MUX, and deMUX
- Time-domain multiplexed (TDM) and wavelength-domain multiplexed (WDM) networks
- Fiber-optic links for telecom, datacom, and analog signaling
- Optical fiber sections and infrared fibers
- The Raman effect with tables of shifts, photorefractivity, laser damages, and the generation of other wavelength light sources
Telecommunications
Getting the Message: A History of Communications (Hardcover) 
Author: Laszlo Solymar Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (November 15, 1999) An entertaining, well-illustrated and enjoyable history of communications from classical times until now. The author presents an overview of the development of the science and engineering of point-to-point, long-distance signalling systems. Lots of good stories with an insider's perspective. Modern Electronic Communication (9th Edition) (Hardcover) Author: Jeff Beasley, Gary M. Miller Publisher: Prentice Hall; 9 edition (May 1, 2007) 
This book is a thorough and up-to-date reference for electronic technicians. This book thoroughly examines the key concepts in electronic communications. The book contains many examples of communication circuit troubleshooting and includes extensive use of Electronics Workbench Multisim throughout. This edition has expanded the coverage of digital communications to present readers with the latest techniques and methods which reflect current practices in industry. "Troubleshooting with Electronics Workbench Multisim" sections at the end of each chapter help readers gain the understanding of an important concept presented in the chapter by presenting circuits in a tutorial manner. This edition still features the best of older communication circuits with new content on current circuits, data sheets, and communication techniques from Philips Semiconductor, Maxim, Analog Devices, Lectrosonics, and Zarlink. Updated wireless digital communications topics include direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS), spreading and de-spreading the signal, pseudo noise (PN) codes, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), phase-shift keying (PSK), and frequency shift keying, troubleshooting cellular telephone problems. Fundamentals of Telecommunications, 2nd Edition (Hardcover) 
Author: Roger L. Freeman Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press; 2 edition (April 18, 2005) This book is oriented toward systems at the engineering level. The concepts learned from this book will be a strong foundation for advanced studies in telecommunications and business data communication. This book provides a thorough introduction to the fundamentals of telecommunication networks without bogging you down in complex technical jargon or math. Although focusing on the basics, the book has been thoroughly updated with the latest advances in the field, including a new chapter on metropolitan area networks (MANs) and new sections on Mobile Fi, ZigBee and ultrawideband. You'll learn which choices are now available to an organization, how to evaluate them and how to develop strategies that achieve the best balance among cost, security and performance factors for voice, data, and image communication.
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