The Theory of Optical Communication

This book is a comprehensive treatment of the theory of optical communications, where optical communications is considered in a broad senses that is, to include all of the ways in which information is conveyed in an optical form.

Optical communications is often taken to refer to the optical transmission systems that the telephone companies employ.

Such fiber optic digital transmission systems are not the only systems to use optical waveforms as information carriers.

Most books however deal only with such systems and with the related hardware. This book lays the foundation applicable to all types of optical communications.

It uses physical concepts to bring meaning to statistical optics which can then be applied to most optical systems that are of interest now or may become of interest in the near future.