3. Amplification techniques

Bibliography

• (1) - SCHUH (K.), LACH (E.) -  High-bit-rate ETDM transmission systems.  -  Optical Fiber Telecommunications VB, chap. 5, édité par KAMINOV (I.P.), LI (T.), WILLNER (A.E.), Academic Press, Elsevier (2008).
• (2) - DESURVIRE (E.), BAYART (D.), DESTHIEUX (B.), BIGO (S.) -...

Software tools

Optilux, free software for simulating optical transmission systems http://www.optilux.sourceforge.net/

VPI transmission Maker ^TM , software suite for the simulation of optical components and systems, published by VPI photonics

Websites

Jean-Michel Jonathan, lecture at Institut d'Optique Graduate School Paris Tech, Guided wave optics – Lightwave http://www.paristech.institutoptique.fr/site.php?id=95=72

Events

Optical Fiber Communications Conference/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), an international conference held annually in the United States. http://www.ofcconference.org

European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) is an international conference held every September in a different European country....

Standards and norms

National Telecommunications Union, ITU http://www.itu.int/

• Interfaces for optical transport networks (OTN) http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-G.709/fr - ITU-T G.709 -
• Spectral grids for wavelength-division multiplexing applications: DWDM dense grid http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-G.694.1/fr - ITU-T G.694.1 -

Regulations

French regulatory authority for electronic communications and posts, ARCEP http://www.arcep.fr/

Directory

Manufacturers – Suppliers – Distributors (non-exhaustive list)

Alcatel-Lucent http://www.alcatel-lucent.com

Ciena http://www.ciena.fr/

Cisco Systems http://www.cisco.fr