Optical Communications (eBook)

Alberto Paradisi is the Vice President Research and Development at CPqD. He has vast R&D experience, coordination and management in Electrical Engineering, Innovation Management with special focus on Telecom Systems. His main activities are in the following areas: modeling and simulation of optical devices and sub-systems, data networks and traffic engineering, WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexed) optical transmission systems, erbium-doped fiber amplification and Raman-type amplification, optical routing technology, performance monitoring of WDM optical networks, ASON/GMPLS control plans, digital processing of optical systems, passive optical networking, OTN networks and advanced Ethernet networks, protection and restoration of optical networks. Andrea Chiuchiarelli is a senior researcher at CPqD, in the Division of Optical Technologies. His main areas of interest are Optical Communication Systems, Coherent Optical Technologies and High-Capacity Optical Data Center Interconnect. Rafael Carvalho Figueiredo is a researcher at CPqD, in Optical Technologies Division. His current areas of interest include optical amplification, high-speed optical communications, optical switching, and semiconductor optical amplifiers.

1- High-Capacity Unrepeatered Optical Transmission 2- Multilevel Pulse Amplitude Modulation Transmissions for Data Center Applications 3- High-Order Modulation Formats for Coherent Optical Systems 4- Low Power Coherent Digital Signal Processing 5- Advanced Error Correcting Techniques for High Capacity Coherent Optical Systems 6- Optical OFDM 7- Ultrafast Electro-Optical Switches Based on Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers 8- Nonlinear Effects Impact and Mitigation in Coherent Optical Systems 9- Optical Access Networks 10- Tunable External Cavity Lasers 11- Photonic Integrated Optical Devices 12- Optical Networks