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1.		Optical Networks: A Practical Perspective (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking) from Morgan Kaufmann Price: $19.95 Customer Review: It is for sure a good book, clearly written and rationally organized. Its only defect is that the optical networking field is a rapidly evolving one and even if subsequent editions have updated the book, a few recent key technologies are not considered. For example electronic linearization of fiber... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		Technician's Guide to Fiber Optics, 4E from Delmar Cengage Learning Price: $44.50 Customer Review: This is a very good introduction to fiber optics and telcom as it relates to fiber optic systems. There isn't really that much in terms of equations, but there's plenty of good information about fiber optics in general. It doesn't go into details as to the actual 'technician' side of fiber optics.... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		Nonlinear Fiber Optics, Fourth Edition (Optics and Photonics) from Academic Press Price: $74.40 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


4.		Fiber Optics Technician's Manual from Delmar Cengage Learning Price: $59.91 Customer Review: This book is for beginers... Any technician who worked few months on fiber optic knows about everything in that book. However, if someone never worked with fiber optic, this is a very good introduction... If the title was: "... an introduction..." I certainly rate this book 5 stars.	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication Is Reshaping Social Cohesion from The MIT Press Price: $12.89 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


6.		Telecosm: The World After Bandwidth Abundance from Free Press Price: $4.48 Customer Review: While this book is extremely well written, it is outdated now in 2003. This book is filled with the hype, euphoria, and speculative promises of the .com era. Yes, the writing sizzzles and many of the stories are interesting, but the writing seems to lack a firm foundation of fundemental research and... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		Cabling: The Complete Guide to Copper and Fiber-Optic Networking from Sybex Price: $49.96 Customer Review: Good reference material. I bought this for my daughter as a tool to study for her RCDD. It should be on every networking persons library shelf. Net is great but books are still the way to go.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics (Sloan Technology Series) from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $22.23 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


9.		Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics from The MIT Press Price: $10.99 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


10.		Integrated Optics: Theory and Technology from Springer Price: $73.75 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


11.		Optical Network Design and Implementation (Networking Technology) from Cisco Press Price: $56.91 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


12.		Fibre Channel for SANs from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $29.96 Customer Review: If you're interested in FC protocol detail this book is right for you. After reading through the whole book you will find it's easiler to understand FC standards... Hopefully the author can include more figures especially flowcharts in next edition.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.		Applications of Nonlinear Fiber Optics, Second Edition (Optics and Photonics Series) from Academic Press Price: $59.04	Click here for more information


14.		Fiber-Optic Communication Systems from Wiley-Interscience Price: $100.00 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


15.		Fiber Optic Measurement Techniques from Academic Press Price: $78.20 Customer Review: This book is an excellent reference in optical measurement. Actually there are not so many books combining theory and practical needs in the filed. The first one of such a book was Fiber Optic test and Measurement written by Derickson but updated. It is intended to be used by a... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		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


17.		Splicing Wire and Fiber Rope from Schiffer Publishing Price: $7.00 Customer Review: Well, I don't know what to say about this one. Books of this nature are hard to find, and all seem to be written in the same fashion. It a little Spartan on the details, the images are so so. It leans a little heavy on the wire splicing techniques. For the price, buy it if you are interested in... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


18.		Fiber Optic Installer's Field Manual from McGraw-Hill Professional 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


19.		Fiber Bragg Gratings, Second Edition (Optics and Photonics Series) from Academic Press Price: $79.96	Click here for more information


20.		Handbook of Plastic Optics from Wiley-VCH Price: $137.56	Click here for more information


21.		Optical Fiber Fusion Splicing (Springer Series in Optical Sciences) from Springer Price: $175.20 Customer Review: Very accurate and well written at different details levels, so can be fruitfully adopted from students, technicians, scientists.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


22.		Fiber Optics Installer and Technician Guide from Sybex Price: $39.99 Customer Review: This book is great reference material for the cable installation work we provide here in Iraq.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


23.		Specialty Optical Fibers Handbook from Academic Press Price: $87.40 Customer Review: The book is not what I expected, but very well and good. lots of information on different types of fiber, not enough information on the handling of these types	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


24.		Fundamentals of Optical Waveguides, Second Edition (Optics and Photonics Series) from Academic Press Price: $49.99 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


25.		Handbook of Optics, Third Edition Volume V: Atmospheric Optics, Modulators, Fiber Optics, X-Ray and Neutron Optics from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $122.68	Click here for more information


26.		Fiber Optics Engineering (Optical Networks) from Springer Price: $134.03	Click here for more information


27.		Optical Fiber Communications: Principles and Practice (3rd Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $62.93	Click here for more information


28.		Ultra-high Frequency Linear Fiber Optic Systems from Springer Price: $29.99	Click here for more information


29.		Optical Waveguide Modes: Polarization, Coupling and Symmetry from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $75.89	Click here for more information


30.		Fiber Optic Communications (5th Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $84.99 Customer Review: I have read many books looking for quick information regarding fiber optic systems and this book is by far better than any others in terms of giving you the "need to know" basics and principles. I like how clearly the background information on optical is presented. Some other reviews have aptly... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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