| | | Preface | | |
| | | Acknowledgments | | |
| 1 | | Introduction | | 1 |
| 2 | | Basic Principles and Background | | 3 |
| | | Wavelength Division Multiplexing: Basic Principles | | 3 |
| | | History of WDM in a Few Words | | 4 |
| | | WDM and Time Division Multiplexing | | 4 |
| | | Wavelength Domain and Separation Between Channels | | 5 |
| | | Wavelength Allocation | | 7 |
| | | Optical Wavelength/Optical Frequency Conversion | | 7 |
| | | How Many Channels? | | 10 |
| | | Some Definitions | | 11 |
| | | Solitons | | 12 |
| 3 | | Dense WDM and Demultiplexers | | 19 |
| | | Passive Components: The Current Available Choice | | 19 |
| | | AWG | | 21 |
| | | FBG | | 27 |
| | | Optical Multidielectric Filters | | 32 |
| | | Diffraction Gratings | | 38 |
| | | Cascaded Mach-Zehnder Interferometers | | 64 |
| | | Other Devices: FBG/MZ Interferometer Devices | | 67 |
| | | Methods of Broadening and Flattening the Spectral Shape of the Transmission Channels of Grating WDM | | 68 |
| | | Comparison of the Different Solutions | | 74 |
| 4 | | Sources and Wavelength Converters for DWDM | | 83 |
| | | Semiconductor Lasers | | 84 |
| | | Glass-Doped-Based Lasers with Narrow Line-Widths | | 96 |
| | | Spectral Slicing of Sources | | 98 |
| | | Wavelength Converters | | 106 |
| 5 | | WDM and Optical Amplification | | 125 |
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