Terdapat bibliografi dan indeks. CONTENTS: 1. Introduction to Optical Communications 1.1 BriefHistory 1.2 Generic Optical System 1.3 Design Challenges 1.4 State of the Art 2. Basic Concepts 2.1 Properties of Random Binary Data 2.2 Generation of Random Data 2.3 Data Formats 2.4 Effect of Bandwidth Limitation on Random Data 2.5 Effect of Noise on Random Data 2.6 Phase Noise and Jitter 2.7 Transm…