Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary (Advanced & Emerging Communications Technologies)

Within a few short years, fiber optics has skyrocketed from an interesting laboratory experiment to a billion-dollar industry. But with such meteoric growth and recent, exciting advances, even references published less than five years ago are already out of date. The Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary fills a gap in the literature by providing instructors, hobbyists, and top-level engineers with an accessible, current reference. From the author of the best-selling Telecommunications Illustrated Dictionary, this comprehensive reference includes fundamental physics, basic technical information for fiber splicing, installation, maintenance, and repair, and follow-up information for communications and other professionals using fiber optic components. Well-balanced, well-researched, and extensively cross-referenced, it also includes hundreds of photographs, charts, and diagrams that clarify the more complex ideas and put simpler ideas into their applications context. Fiber optics is a vibrant field, not just in terms of its growth and increasing sophistication, but also in terms of the people, places, and details that make up this challenging and rewarding industry. In addition to furnishing an authoritative, up-to-date resource for relevant industry definitions, this dictionary introduces many exciting recent applications as well as hinting at emerging future technologies. With the proliferation of computers and computer networks has come the need for greater communications bandwidth. For this reason, companies are turning to robust, fiber optic interconnection technologies. The Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary is a comprehensive lexicon with over 5,000 entries that relate to the field of fiber optics, with an emphasis on fiber optics communications. It presents historical and current practices and significant technologies in clear, encyclopedic form with numerous charts and relevant appendices. Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary meets the need for an authoritative, entry-level reference in a field that is rapidly gaining importance, yet is not fully documented. "The Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary fills a gap in the literature by providing instructors, hobbyists, and top-level engineers with an accessible, current reference. From the author of the best-selling Telecommunications Illustrated Dictionary, this comprehensive reference includes fundamental physics, basic technical information for fiber splicing, installation, maintenance and repair, and follow-up information for communications and other professionals using fiber optic components. Well balanced, well researched, and extensively cross-referenced, it also includes hundreds of photographs, charts, and diagrams that clarify the more complex ideas and put simpler ideas into their applications context." "Fiber optics is a vibrant field, not just in terms of its growth and increasing sophistication, but also in terms of the people, places, and details that make up this challenging and rewarding industry. In addition to furnishing an authoritative, up-to-date resource for relevant definitions, this dictionary introduces many exciting recent applications and hints at emerging future technologies." "Features: provides the only up-to-date lexicon focused exclusively on the science, technology, and applications of fiber optics; contains more than 10,000 entries presented in a clear, encyclopedic format; includes relevant historical information; documents significant new emerging fiber optic technologies; includes almost 300 illustrations and appendices that furnish valuable timelines, recommendations, Internet resources, RFCs, and much more; and includes historical definitions relevant to the evolution of fiber optics."--Jacket FIBER OPTICS ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY......Page 3 Preface......Page 5 About the Author......Page 7 How to Use......Page 8 Contents......Page 9 A......Page 10 B......Page 100 C......Page 156 D......Page 236 E......Page 302 F......Page 346 G......Page 400 H......Page 442 I......Page 470 J......Page 534 K......Page 558 L......Page 574 M......Page 618 N......Page 674 O......Page 702 P......Page 726 Q......Page 782 R......Page 796 S......Page 842 T......Page 912 U......Page 962 V......Page 980 W......Page 1002 X......Page 1032 Y......Page 1040 Z......Page 1044 Numerals......Page 1052 Appendices......Page 1058 A. Fiber Optics Timeline......Page 1059 B. Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Information......Page 1061 C. International Telegraph Union (ITU-T) Telecommunications Recommendations......Page 1064 D. World Wide Web Major Search Engines......Page 1065 E. Internet Domain Name Extensions......Page 1066 F. Request for Comments (RFC) Documents......Page 1068 G. National Associations......Page 1071 H. Dial Equivalents, Radio Alphabet , Morse Code, MetricPrefixes/VaIues......Page 1075 ASCII(Charactere and Control Codes)......Page 1076