Optical Waveguide Theory
Optical Waveguide Theory
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DOI：
10.1080/716099675
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发表时间：
1984-05
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
M. J. Adams
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作者：
M. J. Adams
近年来，光纤技术取得了巨大的进步，其结果是，在许多国家，光纤电缆正以越来越快的速度安装在电信系统中。在这些发展的同时，对光纤通信的培训和进一步研究的需要刺激了关于这一主题的多种书籍。虽然许多这样的书试图给出最新的技术，包括讨论源，探测器和系统的概念，除了光纤的特性，本卷专门集中于光波导传播的基本理论。这是完全合适的，因为作者是波导理论方面的知名权威，他们对光纤理解和设计的发展做出了不小的贡献，从而导致了当前光纤系统的广泛使用。这本书（像凯撒的高卢）分为三个部分：第一部分（200页，10章）涉及多模波导的几何光学理论；第11部分（380页，19章）从电磁理论的角度对波导进行了描述；第三部分（130页，8章）收集了关于数学方法的补充材料，补充了其他两部分的论述。这种布局的优点是，物理原理可以在前两部分相对较快地介绍，而完成描述所必需的严格数学可以在需要时参考第三部分。从教育的角度来看，作者提供了一个基于选定章节的30小时课程的建议计划。此外，部分文本被设定为可以在课堂环境中使用的工作示例，尽管在实践中，我怀疑一些额外的问题，可能涉及数值示例，也需要本科生使用。
RECENT years have seen dramatic advances in the technology of optical fibres, with the result that fibre cables are now being installed in telecommunications systems at an ever-increasing rate in many countries. In parallel with these developments, the need for training and further research in optical fibre communications has stimulated a multiplicity of books on the subject. Whilst many such books try to give up-to-date accounts of the technology, including discussions of sources, detectors, and systems concepts in addition to fibre properties, the present volume concentrates exclusively on the underlying theory of propagation in optical waveguides. This is entirely apt in that the authors are well-known authorities on waveguide theory who have contributed in no small part to the development in fibre understanding and design which led to the current widespread use of fibre systems. The book (like Caesar's Gaul) is divided into three sections: Part 1 (200 pages, 10 chapters) deals with the geometrical optics theory of multimode waveguides; Part 11 (380 pages, 19 chapters) provides a description of waveguides fron the viewpoint of electromagnetic theory; Part III (130 pages, 8 chapters) collects together supplementary material on mathematical methods which complements the treatments of the other two parts. This layout has the merit that the physical principles can be introduced relatively quickly in the first two parts whilst the rigorous mathematics necessary to complete the description can be referred to as and when required by recourse to part III.From the educational point of view, the authors provide a suggested plan for a 30-hour course based on selected chapters. In addition, parts of the text are set out as worked examples which could conceivably be used in a classroom context, although in practice I suspect that a number of additional problems, perhaps involving numerical examples, would also be needed for undergraduate use.