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As well as focusing on the impact of fiber nonlinearities on system performance, this book examines recent progress in fiber-optic communication systems, with pioneers in the field contributing material for a comprehensive survey of the most important topics.

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This book covers the recent progress in fiber-optic communication systems with a main focus on the impact of fiber nonlinearities on the system performance. Over the past few years, there has been significant progress in coherent communication systems mainly because of the advances in digital signal processing techniques. This has led to renewed interest in fiber linear and nonlinear impairments and techniques to mitigate them in electrical domain. In this book, the reader will find all the important topics of fiber optic communication systems in one place with in-depth coverage by the experts of each subtopics. Pioneers from each of the sub-topics have been invited to contribute. Each chapter will have a section on fundamentals, review of literature survey and the recent developments. The reader will benefit from this approach since many of the conference proceedings and journal articles mainly focus on the authors´ research work without spending space on preliminaries.

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Coherent, Self-Coherent, and Differential Detection Systems.- Basics of Optical OFDM Systems.- Nonlinear Impairments in Coherent Optical OFDM Systems and Their Mitigation.- Experimental Progress on High Speed OFDM Systems.- Power Efficient Modulation Schemes.- QAM Experiments for Single Carrier and WDM, and Nonlinear Tolerance Study.- Multicanonical Monte Carlo Simulation Techniques for Fiber-Optic Transmission Systems.- Optical Regenerators for Novel Modulation Schemes.- Intrachannel Nonlinear Impairments in Coherent and Direct Detection Systems.- Coding/Nonlinear Impairments Reduction by Coding.- Nonlinear Polarization Scattering in Coherent Communication Systems.- Analysis of Nonlinear Phase Noise in Pseudo-Linear Systems.- Coherent Communication Systems/Nonlinear Phase Noise.- Channel Capacity of Nonlinear Fiber Optic Transmission Systems.

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From the reviews:
"This reference discusses the most recent contributions to nonlinear impairment in fiber optics communications. ... should be of interest to professionals and graduate students in the fields of optical sciences, physics and applied mathematics. ... this book connects the important issue of high demands for a large channel capacity with high spectral efficiency and flexible network design. ... this highly recommendable book analyzes all-optical regenerator schemes for phase encoded signals in order to suppress linear and nonlinear phase noise in systems." (Axel Mainzer Koenig, Optics & Photonics News, October, 2011)

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