Optical Transmission (eBook)

Antonio Teixeira holds a PhD in electrical engineering by the University of Aveiro, Portugal, partly developed at the University of Rochester, NY, USA, an executive certificate in Management from the MIT, Boston, USA. He is a professor at the University of Aveiro, where he is a member of the electronics telecommunications and informatics executive board, a researcher at the Instituto of Telecomunicações, and a senior specialist in Standardization in Nokia Siemens Networks, has more than 300 published papers, being more than 60 in refereed journals and holding seven patens. He has also contributed to several book chapters and has been involved in several European and national projects both with public funding or with industry.Giorgio Maria Tosi Beleffi holds a PhD by the University of Roma Tor Vergata, a one year Master Course on TLC by the Ministry of Communications (SSTLC), Rome, Italy and a certificate on the Fundamental of Finance for the Technical Executives from the MIT, Boston, USA. He has an experience of 10 years in the telecommunication area (TLC), working (from 2001 to 2006) at Fondazione Ugo Bordoni and (from 2006 up today) at the Italian Ministry of Economic Development – Communications Department. He is a specialist in devices, systems and subsystems regarding the Metro and Access TLC sectors as part of the green Next Generation Broadband Networks (NGNs) with deep skills on network security and critical infrastructures. He participated to the FP5 ATLAS, FP6 ePhotonOne/ePhotonOne+, FP7 BONE and FP7 SARDANA projects. Italian National Delegate of COST MP0702 and Vice National Coordinator at ITU-T SG.15. He is Senior Member of IEEE Leos and TPC member of several IEEE international conferences. He has more than 100 published papers, being more than 20 in refereed journals and holding a patent on all optical regeneration. He has also contributed to several book chapters.

Chapter 1 State of the art on transmission techniques Leader: Christos P. Tsekrekos, Ioannis Tomkos. 1.1 Introduction.1.2 Fibre channel characteristics. 1.3 Intensity and differential-phase modulation formats. 1.4 Field modulation and coherent detection. 1.5 Optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing. References. List of acronyms. Chapter 2 Signal processing, management and monitoring in transmission networks; C.Vázquez/J.Montalvo. 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 Dynamic and distributed control in transmission networks. 2.3 Monitoring and signal processing in optical networks. 2.4 Impairment control and QoT constrained routing. 2.5 Conclusions. References. Chapter 3 Simulations of High Capacity Long Haul Optical Transmission Systems; F.Matera. 3.1 Introduction. 3.2 The role of the simulation tools in the evolution of the optical transmission systems. 3.3 Modeling of Optical Systems. 3.4 Simulation models of long haul optical transmission systems. 3.5 Simulation results for long haul transmission systems. 3.6 Propagation in the presence of in-line All Optical Device. 3.7 WDM Burst Traffic Amplification in Optically Gain Clamped Amplifier. 3.8 Propagation in the presence of Arrayed Waveguide gratings. 3.9 Micro Ring Resonators. References. Chapter 4 Experiments on long-haul high capacity transmission systems; G.Bosco/F.Matera. 4.1 Introduction. 4.2 100 Gb/s PM-QPSK WDM Transmission Experiments over Installed Fiber. 4.3 Transoceanic PM-QPSK Terabit Superchannel Transmission Experiments. 4.4 Experimental investigation on 100 Gb/s POLMUX including All Optical Wavelength Conversion. 4.5 The current status of long haul high bit rate transmission experiments: results from ECOC 2010. 4.6 Experimental Investigation of WDM Burst Traffic Amplification. 4.7 Trends on regeneration. References. Chapter 5 Economics of Next Generation Networks; M.Forzati. 5.1 The cost side: Techno-economics of Future Internet. 5.2 The benefit side: The economic impact of Future Internet. 5.3 Future Internet and new business models.