Undersea Fiber Communication Systems
- 3rd Edition - July 22, 2025
- Latest edition
- Editors: José Chesnoy, Jean-Christophe Antona
- Language: English
Undersea Fiber Communication Systems, Third edition is an authoritative guide exploring the comprehensive aspects of optical communication systems over submarine cables. Coveri… Read more
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Description
Description
The book also explores advancements in wet plant equipment, environmental impacts of marine operations, contract management, and the progression of unrepeated systems to match repeated systems at network levels. This comprehensive update ensures the book's relevance and utility in a field marked by continuous innovation.
Key features
Key features
- Offers unparalleled, complete, and detailed coverage of optical submarine telecommunication systems, including coverage of components, fiber, cable, subsystems, and networks, as well as their operational aspects, including deployment, repair, cable recovery, and related contractual issues
- Addresses the most recent developments in this fast-moving field, including fiber sensing and environmental applications, cable space division multiplexing (SDM), and open cable concepts
- Tackles the evolution of submarine networks into interoperable open cables, terminals, and SDM systems
- Gives a self-contained overview of specific technologies, covering both the state-of-the-art and future research and operational challenges
- Features contributions from recognized experts from academia and industry
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. Presentation of submarine fiber communication
2. Historical overview of submarine communication systems
Part II Submarine System Design
3. Basics of digital optical communications
4. Optical amplification
5. Ultra-long haul submarine open cables
6. Directions for Future systems
7. Unrepeatered Transmission
8. New applications for submarine cables
9. Sensing and environmental applications in Submarine cables
Part III Submarine Equipment
10. Submarine network architectures, terminals, and management
11. Submarine system powering
12. Submarine fibers
13. Submerged plant equipment
14. Cable technology Part IV Planning, Operation and Maintenance
15. From system planning to deployment
16. Submarine cable upgrades and transponder technologies
17. Marine and maintenance from inception to end of life
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 3
- Latest edition
- Published: July 23, 2025
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
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José Chesnoy
José Chesnoy is an independent expert and consultant on undersea fiberoptic systems, and co-founder of the Subsea Optical Fiber Communications summer school. He began his career at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and pioneered the development of amplified submarine cables. Then he moved to Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN) where he successively led the development of submarine systems and WDM equipment, and was CTO of ASN before moving into independent consulting.
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Jean-Christophe Antona
Jean-Christophe Antona is in charge of Line Modeling and Advanced Studies within Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) in Nozay, France. He joined Alcatel Corporate Research Center to study nonlinear effects in terrestrial optical networks, and within Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs he headed the Dynamic Optical Networks research group before joining ASN. He has authored or coauthored more than 120 publications and 13 patent applications, and gives lectures at the Subsea Optical Fiber Communications summer school.