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1.		Optical Network Design and Implementation from Cisco Press Customer Review: I work for a switch fabric semiconductor company. I wanted to gain a better understanding of the types of systems that our components would be used in, specifically relating to IP-over-SONET traffic, MSPPs and ring protection mechanisms. This book fit the bill quite nicely. It covers the basics of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication Is Reshaping Social Cohesion from The MIT Press Price: $13.37 Customer Review: Pros: Cutting edge research Great concept and a quick read Cons: Reads more like a term paper.	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics (Sloan Technology Series) from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $23.50 Customer Review: Charles Kao recently won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication." Hecht does a terrific job giving a thorough description of Kao's work that won him this award.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		Fiber Optic Installer's Field Manual (First-Choice Field Manuals) from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $34.00 Customer Review: It started from the basic fundamental of fiber optics its uses, termination, safety, testing , documenting and upto its application	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		Handbook of Fiber Optic Data Communication, Third Edition: A Practical Guide to Optical Networking from Academic Press Price: $67.80	Click here for more information


6.		Fundamentals of Optical Waveguides, Second Edition from Academic Press Price: $54.85 Customer Review: Fundamental to the science of fiber optics is knowledge about how light behaves in optical waveguides. Subjects of interest include waveguides made of optical fiber as well as planar waveguides in optical integrated circuits. Issues include the modal distribution of optical energy in the waveguides,... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		Optical Networks, Second Edition: A Practical Perspective, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking) from Morgan Kaufmann Price: $79.49 Customer Review: Das Buch war in gutem Zustand, so wie in der Werbung geschrieben war. Ich bin zufrieden.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		RF Photonic Technology in Optical Fiber Links from Cambridge University Press Price: $65.56	Click here for more information


9.	[no image]	Understanding Fiber Optics from H.W. Sams Customer Review: GREAT BOOK! Used a lot of the principles in my lectures.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.		Fiber Optic Communications (5th Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $84.94 Customer Review: This book has helped me with the basic information and tje advanced information that I needed.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		Sonet/SDH Third Edition from McGraw-Hill/OsborneMedia Price: $6.99 Customer Review: This is a response to Mr. Kessler's review. First, he needs to state that he has a biased interest in his review, that he used to work with Walter at Hill & Associates before he went to work for Juniper. Second, I was the reviewer for the first edition of the book and Walter had a lot of... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		Fiber Optics Technician's Manual from Delmar Cengage Learning Price: $76.45 Customer Review: I Ordered the manual Fiber Optics Technician's Manualhoping that it would have new ideas and latest technology included and was dissapointed in both departments. It covered fiber optics thoroughly up to the 1970/80's and for anyone that has been active in the field of fiber optics this is actually a... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.		Fiber-Optic Communication Systems from Wiley-Interscience Price: $97.50 Customer Review: Very good book! It contains a lot of concept about propagation in fiber optic. It's very usefull for people that has just started to study optical communication	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.		Cabling: The Complete Guide to Copper and Fiber-Optic Networking from Sybex Price: $57.12	Click here for more information


15.		Photonics Rules of Thumb: Optics, Electro-Optics, Fiber Optics and Lasers from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $49.94 Customer Review: I'm a great fan of lore books as opposed to textbooks or reference books. Lore books are the ones that contain the things that many people in the field may know, but which they had to learn the hard way, and I like them because they help me learn the easy way. Miller and Friedman have written a... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		Handbook of Optics, Third Edition Volume III: Vision and Vision Optics(set) from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $148.16	Click here for more information


17.	[no image]	Nonlinear Fiber Optics (Quantum Electronics-Principles and Applications) from Academic Pr Price: $64.00 Customer Review: There are so many careless errors in the most important equations in this book. Some plots are wrong too. Some claims are ungrounded. Not for entry level. For expert who already knows this stuff and who can easily spot his errors. Otherwise you will be so confused and almost wanted to kill... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


18.		Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics from The MIT Press Price: $11.57 Customer Review: "Control and Freedom" is on the ROROTOKO list of cutting-edge intellectual nonfiction. Professor Chun's book interview ran here as cover feature on March 17, 2009.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


19.		Integrated Optics: Theory and Technology from Springer Price: $74.11 Customer Review: I have been in this area for several years. This book is useful and practical. The author continuously updates the content. I strongly recommend this book.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


20.		Fiber-Optic Communications Technology from Prentice Hall Price: $97.00 Customer Review: This book offers, from my point of view, very easy explanation of all phenomena and gives very good hints to explain some effects in lectures. The practical approach gives a person who does not work with fiber-optics very good examples. Also the addition of real datasheet and their explanation is... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


21.		Introduction to Fiber Optics, Third Edition from Newnes Price: $31.95 Customer Review: I'm an engineer becoming familiar with fiberoptics. This book is very oriented towards the non-engineer. Much space is devoted to explanation of terms dB, and basic laws of physics. The issue of multimode vs single mode is handled too cavalierly. The reader is left faced with an undesirable trait... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


22.		Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers: Fundamentals and Technology (Optics and Photonics) from Academic Press Price: $149.99 Customer Review: most up-to-date, fewest mistakes (by far), clearest, most-well-thought-out-treatment	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


23.		Handbook of Optics, Third Edition Volume II: Design, Fabrication and Testing, Sources and Detectors, Radiometry and Photometry from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $111.15	Click here for more information


24.		Handbook of Optics, Third Edition Volume I: Geometrical and Physical Optics, Polarized Light, Components and Instruments(set) from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $111.15	Click here for more information


25.		Structural Monitoring with Fiber Optic Technology from Academic Press	Click here for more information


26.		Metro Ethernet (paperback) from Cisco Press Price: $44.33 Customer Review: Sam Halabi did it again.This is a rare and very informative book on Metro Ethernet developments.It has very clear explanation on all the subjects.I particularly like the VPLS section. One thing tough,the HVPLS section needs to have more coverage on real world scenario.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


27.		Fiber Optics Engineering (Optical Networks) from Springer Price: $134.32	Click here for more information


28.		Guided Optics: Optical Fibers and All-fiber Components (Physics Textbook) from Wiley-VCH Price: $61.95	Click here for more information


29.		Optical Fiber Communications: Principles and Practice (3rd Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $70.51	Click here for more information


30.		Hybrid Fiber Optic/Coaxial (HFC) Networks from CMP Price: $25.81 Customer Review: That's all there is to say. The book may be well written and may have been up to date in 1995 but it is now thoroughly out of date. In the opening chapter it talks about MPEG2 as a new technology and dismisses the digital transmission of video signals because of the high cost of encoders and... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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