Optoelectronic Devices and Optical Fiber Communication

Key Strengths: Fundamental Understanding: The book emphasizes the basic principles of optoelectronic devices and their role in modern low-loss, high-bandwidth transmission systems. Extensive Coverage: It covers a wide range of topics including integrated optics, optical networks, WDM concepts, coherent optical communication, and practical measurement techniques. Educational Value: Includes numerous solved examples for better comprehension and unsolved problems for self-assessment. Recommendation: This treatise is highly recommended for students and researchers seeking a detailed understanding of optoelectronics in the context of optical fiber communication. The author's expertise shines through in the thorough coverage provided.

He was also former Head of the Department of Electronics Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (BHU) and director of Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad. He has made significant contributions in experimental and theoretical research in areas of Microelectronics and photonics. I was fortunate enough to get a copy of this book from my friend. After going though this book it is felt essential from my part to write a small review of this very book with title ‘Optoelectronic devices and Optical fiber communication’. In modern science and technology Optoelectronics and Optical fiber Communication are two of the rapidly growing fields that deal with the transmission of data, voice and video over optical fiber throughout the globe. The subject focuses on the development of optical fiber communication systems and optoelectronic devices that are used to transfer data between two points. This book deals with semiconductor optoelectronic devices and components that find a major application in optical fiber communication and elaborately describes optical communication systems and their application in modern low-loss and high-bandwidth transmission systems as an alternative to conventional electrical communication systems. A comprehensive list of references to the original works related to the evolution of optical fiber communication systems is very helpful for the students for further study on this subject. One of the key areas of research in Optoelectronics and Optical Communication is Photonics. Photonics is the study of the generation, detection, and control of light. Photonic systems are used in a wide range of applications, including telecommunications over long distance and metropolitan area network, sensing, and data storage. Photonics has been a major driving force in the development of fiber optic communication systems, which are now widely used in domestic and defence research. The application of LASER in fiber optic communication yields higher bandwidth, reliability and cost effectiveness. Optoelectronic devices are used in the underwater optical communication systems and terrestrial atmospheric optical communication systems. This book nicely illuminates nature of light and its various theories, fiber optic material and its fabrication technologies, Optical waveguides, Transmission characteristic of optical fibers, Active and Passive optical devices like transmitters, receivers, amplifiers, splitters, couplers, absorbers, wavelength division multiplexers/ demultiplexers, tunable and fixed filters, attenuators, isolators, polarizer, modulators are the devices that emit, transport, amplify, switch, route or detect optical signals and in turn constitute the building blocks for optical networking equipment and analogue / digital optical links. In this book the optoelectronic materials and devices are discussed with reference to various aspects of communication elaborately. This book is very useful for UG and PG students of optical fiber communication system and its suitable accessories. This book is basically ‘A treatise on optoelectronic devices and optical fiber communication’, which is the result of a herculean task by Professor (Dr.) Parthasarathi Chakrabarti, a renowned educationist with unfathomable knowledge in various fields of science and technology. Students of college and universities, research associates shall get most benefit from this book which is a major contribution of Prof. (Dr.) P. Chakrabarti.