Undersea Fiber Communication Systems

José Chesnoy is an independent expert and consultant on undersea fiberoptic systems, and co-founder of the Subsea Optical Fiber Communications summer school. He began his career at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and pioneered the development of amplified submarine cables. Then he moved to Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN) where he successively led the development of submarine systems and WDM equipment, and was CTO of ASN before moving into independent consulting. Jean-Christophe Antona is in charge of Line Modeling and Advanced Studies within Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) in Nozay, France. He joined Alcatel Corporate Research Center to study nonlinear effects in terrestrial optical networks, and within Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs he headed the Dynamic Optical Networks research group before joining ASN. He has authored or coauthored more than 120 publications and 13 patent applications, and gives lectures at the Subsea Optical Fiber Communications summer school.

Part I Introduction
1. Presentation of submarine fiber communication
2. Historical overview of submarine communication systems

Part II Submarine System Design
3. Basics of digital optical communications
4. Optical amplification
5. Ultra-long haul submarine open cables
6. Directions for Future systems
7. Unrepeatered Transmission
8. New applications for submarine cables
9. Sensing and environmental applications in Submarine cables

Part III Submarine Equipment
10. Submarine network architectures, terminals, and management
11. Submarine system powering
12. Submarine fibers
13. Submerged plant equipment
14. Cable technology Part IV Planning, Operation and Maintenance
15. From system planning to deployment
16. Submarine cable upgrades and transponder technologies
17. Marine and maintenance from inception to end of life