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OPTICAL FIBER TE L ECO M M U N I CATION S 1 r I / EDIIED BY IVAN P. KAMINOW OPTICAL FIBER TELECOMMUNICATIONS IIIA OPTICAL FIBER TELECOMMUNICATIONS IIIA Edited by IVAN P. KAMINOW Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories Holmdel, New Jersey THOMAS L. KOCH I>ucent Technologies. Bell Laboratories Holmdel. New Jersey @ ACADEMIC PRESS San Diego London Boston New York Sydney Tokyo Toronto This book is printed on acid-free paper. @ Copyright 0 I997 by Lucent Technologies All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be mailed to: Permissions Department. Harcourt, Inc., 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, Florida 32887-6777 Academic Press A Harcourt Science and Technology Company 525 B Street. Suite 1900, San Diego, California 92101-4495, USA http:l/www.academicpress.com Academic Press Harcourt Place, 32 Jamestown Road, London NWI 7BY, UK http://www.academicpress.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Optical fiber telecommunications 111 / [edited by] Ivan P. Kaminow, Thomas L. Koch. Includes bibliogmphical references and index. I. Optical communications. 2. Fiber optics. I. Kaminow, Ivan P. II. Koch. Thomas L p. cm. ISBN 0-12-395170-4(~. A)- lSBN0-12-395171-2 (v. B) 96-43812 TK5103.59.H3516 1997 621.382’75-dc20 CIP PRlNTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 01 02 03 04 05 06 MM 8 7 6 5 4 3 For our dear grandchildren: Sarah, Joseph. Rafael, Nicolas, Gabriel, Sophia, and Maim - IPK For Peggy, Brian, and Marianne - TLK Contents Contributors .Y111 Chapter 1 Overview Ivan P. Kaminow History The New Volume Survey of Volumes IIIA and IIIB References Chapter 2 SONET and ATM Joseph E. Berthold Background Network Solutions Synchronous Transmission Networking: SONET and the SDH ATM Networking SONET and ATM References Chapter 3 Coding and Error Correction in Optical Fiber Communications Systems Vincent W. S. Chan Introduction Common Modulation Formats for Fiber Svstems-Direct Detection and Coherent Systems Fundamental Detection Performances and Deviations of Currently Available Systems Potential Role of Forward Error-Correcting Codes in Fiber Systems and Its Beneficial Ripple Effects on System and Hardware Designs vii i 1 - 1 12 13 13 16 '4 32 40 11 42 32 34 36 50 . OPTICAL FIBER TE L ECO M M U N I CATION S 1 r I / EDIIED BY IVAN P. KAMINOW OPTICAL FIBER TELECOMMUNICATIONS IIIA OPTICAL FIBER TELECOMMUNICATIONS IIIA Edited. Chapter 4 Advances in Fiber Design and Processing David J. DiGiovanni, Donald P. Jablonowski, and Man F. Yan Introduction Erbium Doped Fiber AmplifieI High-Power Fiber Amplifier Amplification. Cataloging-in-Publication Data Optical fiber telecommunications 111 / [edited by] Ivan P. Kaminow, Thomas L. Koch. Includes bibliogmphical references and index. I. Optical communications.