Handbook of Optical Fibers and Cables

ISBN-13: 9780824797195 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996

Hiroshi Murata;Murata

Opis

This timely Second Edition of a highly praised reference provides the most authoritative single source available for information on recent developments in optical fibers and optical fiber cable design. Maintaining and enhancing the style that made the first edition so popular, the Handbook of Optical Fibers and Cables, Second Edition covers the history of optical communications...discusses optical fiber materials, reliability, and manufacture...illustrates the design, construction, and properties of the latest cables used for optical fiber...describes fiber splicing and presents new, automated fiber splicing machines...examines cable connectors...shows how to use instrumental techniques to measure optical fiber systems...explains novel installation procedures and applications...and more.

Recenzje

"Praise for the first edition. . . . . .highly recommended for its comprehensive state-of-the-art fundamentals of optical fibers and cables. The numerous formulas, sketches, diagrams, tables and technical exposition will be a handy guide for network system, optical and electooptical engineers, and those involved in the design, production and installation of fiber optic cables. "
---Applied Optics
"Dr. Murata. . .is a well known expert in the field of fiber optics. . .His book is a good source of information on the design and implementation of optical fiber. "
---Optical Engineering

Spis treści

Otical fibres; optical fibre cables; splicing of fibres; connectors; joining of optical fibre cables; measurement of optical fibres installation of optical fibre cable; applications of optical fibre.

O autorze

HlROSHl MURATA is a Consultant to The Furukawa Electric Company, Ltd. in Tokyo, Japan, where he has served in a variety of engineering and management positions since 1947. Previously he worked in Furukawa's Telecommunication Laboratory on broad-band balanced type cables, coaxial cables, and circular millimeter waveguides, and, as Manager of the Development of Optical Fibers and Cables, he contributed significantly to research on optical fibers, cables, and communications. The author of three books and numerous technical papers, Dr. Murata holds 36 patents in Japan as well as one each in England and France. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), which presented him with a citation for leadership in the development of optical fiber cable technology in 1986, and he is a member of the Optical Society of America and the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan. Dr. Murata received the B.S. (1947) and Ph.D. (1962) degrees in electrical engineering from Tokyo University in Japan.