Complete with new end-of-chapter problems, this extensively updated second edition contains new chapters on optical fiber structures and propagation, optical coherent receivers, digital signal processing (DSP) equalizer algorithms, and high-order spectral DSP receivers. The text provides a comprehensive treatment of the modern aspects of coherent homodyne and self-coherent reception techniques using algorithms incorporated in DSP systems and DSP-based transmitters to overcome several linear and nonlinear transmission impairments and frequency mismatching between the local oscillator and the carrier, as well as clock recovery and cycle slips.

Le Nguyen Binh is technical director of Huawei Technologies' European Research Center, Munich, Germany. He holds a BE (Hons) and Ph.D from the University of Western Australia, Crawley. He has authored and co-authored more than 300 journal papers and eight books, in addition to several refereeing conferences. Previously, he was professorial fellow at Nanyang Technological University of Singapore; the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany; and several Australian universities. He also served as Chair of Commission D (Electronics and Photonics) of the National Committee for Radio Sciences of the Australian Academy of Sciences (1995-2005).

Introduction. Optical Fibers. Optical Transmitters. Optical Receivers and Transmission Performance: Fundamentals. Optical Coherent Detection and Processing Systems. Differential Phase Shift Keying Photonic Systems. Multilevel Amplitude and Phase Shift Keying Optical Transmission. Continuous Phase Modulation Format Optical Systems. Frequency Discrimination Reception for Optical Minimum Shift Keying. Partial Responses and Single-Sideband Optical Modulation. OFDM Optical Transmission Systems. Digital Signal Processing in Optical Transmission Systems under Self-Homodyne Coherent Reception. DSP-Based Coherent Optical Transmission Systems. DSP Algorithms and Coherent Transmission Systems. Optical Soliton Transmission System. Higher-Order Spectrum Coherent Receivers. Temporal Lens and Adaptive Electronic/Photonic Equalization. Comparison of Modulation Formats for Digital Optical Communications.