Fibre Optic Communication – Optical Waveguides, Devices and Applications provides an insight into the general characteristics of optical fibres, their types and applications in various fields such as data transmission and optical communication for the benefit of students pursuing UG and PG courses in ECE, electronics engineering, and applied electronics and instrumentation. Spread across nine chapters, the book deals at length with the general characteristics of optical fibre, its types and applications in various fields such as data transmission and optical communication system, while elaborating on the advantages of optical fibre over other types of communication systems.

Sanjeeev Kumar Raghuwanshi is Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines)/IIT(ISM), Dhanbad. He has authored three books, worked on two functional requirement specification (FRS) projects for IIT (ISM) and one project for ISRO. He has published more than 110 research papers and presented about 75 research papers in journals and conferences of international and national repute.

Santosh Kumar is Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, DIT University, Dehradun. He has authored one book in the subject for the benefit of undergraduate students and published articles in more than 100 journals and conference papers of international and national repute. A recipient of Research Excellence Award at DIT University in the years 2015 and 2016, he is currently guiding six students to their Ph.D. degrees.

Preface

About the Authors

1. Overview of Fibre Optics
2. Optical Waveguide Analysis
3. Laser Optics and Related Devices
4. Coupled-mode Theory for Optical Fibre
5. Overview of Optical Signal Processing and Optical Filter Design
6. Nonlinear Optics and Its Applications
7. Study of Electro-optic Modulators
8. Introduction to Microwave Photonics
9. Application of Fibre Optics

Appendix
Index