INDEX 545
thermo-optic, 355
wavelength-division, 357
switching time, 355
synchronous digital hierarchy,seeSDH
synchronous optical network,seeSONET
synchronous transport module, 13
system design,seelightwavesystems
system margin, 192, 217
TCP/IP protocol, 381
TDM,seemultiplexing
TDM systems, 375–381
demultiplexer for, 377–380
multihop, 381
multiplexer for, 375
performance of, 380
single-hop, 381
TE polarization, 236
telecommunication fiber links, 198–202
telegraphy, 2
thermal equilibrium, 78, 79, 81
thermal noise,seenoise
thermo-optic coefficient, 355
thermoelectric cooler, 122, 125
thermoelectric heater, 416
segmented, 314
third-order dispersion,seedispersion
three-level system, 253
threshold condition, 95
threshold current, 95, 98, 108
temperature dependence of, 107
time-division multiplexing,seemultiplex-
ing, TDM systems
timing jitter, 372, 439–445, 452–457, 464
acoustic, 454
ASE-induced, 266–269
collision-induced, 461–462
control of, 429, 442–445, 457
electrical, 171–173
Gordon–Haus, 266, 439
PMD-induced, 455
Raman-induced, 452
receiver, 171–173
soliton-interaction-induced, 456
TOD-induced, 457
WDM, 461–462
XPM-induced, 310
TM polarization, 236
tone spacing, 485
total internal reflection, 24, 26, 58, 87
transatlantic cable, 200
transfer function, 54, 90, 111, 151, 194,
286, 290, 292, 293
transistor
field-effect, 153
heterojunction-bipolar, 154, 362
high-electron-mobility, 153
transit time, 136, 139, 144
transition cross section, 227, 253
transmitter,seeoptical transmitter
transoceanic transmission,seelightwavesys-
tems
triple-beat distortion, 383
tuning range, 105
twin-amplifier configuration, 236
two-level system, 78, 226
homogeneously broadened, 227
two-photon absorption, 110Vparameter, 33, 289
V-shaped grooves, 345
vapor-axial deposition, 69
vapor-phase epitaxy, 86
variational method, 308, 430
Vernier effect, 105
vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, 105,
203, 214, 361
vestigial sideband, 382walk-off effect, 371
wall-plug efficiency, 88, 109
waveequation, 29
waveguide dispersion,seedispersion
waveguide grating,seegrating
waveguide photodiode, 141
waveguide-grating router, 338, 362, 374
wavelength conversion, 67, 304, 357–360
wavelength routing, 351
wavelength-division multiplexing,seemul-
tiplexing, WDM systems
WDM,seemultiplexing, WDM systems, WDM
networks
WDM components, 339–362
WDM networks
all-optical, 334
Banyan, 337
broadcast, 334–336
deBruijn, 337
distribution, 334–336
Lambdanet, 337