Carefully structured to provide practical knowledge of fundamental issues, and fully revised to reflect the latest optical communication techniques and applications, this Second Edition includes new and updated case studies, examples, end-of-chapter problems, and MATLAB and Simulink models that supply a deeper understanding of the current and future state of optical systems and networks. The book fills the need for a text that emphasizes practical computing models that shed light on device behavior and dynamics. A solutions manual is available with qualifying course adoption.

Le Nguyen Binh is a technical director at the European Research Center of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. in Munich, Germany. He is the editor, author, and/or coauthor of numerous books, as well as the editor of CRC Press' Optics and Photonics series.