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Front Cover

Optical Networks: A Practical Perspective

Contents

Foreword

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the Current Edition

Chapter 1 Introduction to Optical Networks

1.1 Telecommunications Network Architecture

1.2 Services, Circuit Switching, and Packet Switching

1.3 Optical Networks

1.4 The Optical Layer

1.5 Transparency and All-Optical Networks

1.6 Optical Packet Switching

1.7 Transmission Basics

1.8 Network Evolution

Chapter 4 Modulation and Demodulation

Chapter 5 Transmission System Engineering

Part II Networks

Chapter 7 WDM Network Elements

Chapter 8 Control and Management

Chapter 9 Network Survivability

Chapter 10 WDM Network Design

Chapter 11 Access Networks

Chapter 12 Photonic Packet Switching

Chapter 13 Deployment Considerations

Appendix A Acronyms

Appendix B Symbols and Parameters

Appendix C Standards

Appendix D Wave Equations

Appendix E Pulse Propagation in Optical Fiber

Appendix F Nonlinear Polarization

Appendix G Multilayer Thin-Film Filters

Appendix H Random Variables and Processes

Appendix I Receiver Noise Statistics

Appendix J Asynchronous Transfer Mode

Bibliography

Index

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