Optical Communication Systems: Proceedings of the National Science Foundation-User Meeting on Optical Communication Systems Held at Pasadena, California on June 4, 5, 1979

摘要

This proceedings consists of state-of-the-art developments in optical communication theory and devices presented at a conference in which industry, academia, and government were represented. Under atmospheric optical communication and detection, the following topics were covered: quantum nondemolition sensors for gravitational-wave detection; phase compensation system for low visibility optical communication; information transmission and processing for stochastic point processes; the Neyman Type-A distribution in photon counting, nuclear counting, and neural counting; research in quantum detection theory; and an optical space communication system. Optical communications devices, guided wave devices, and optoelectronic devices were also covered under individual sessions. Examples of topics from each of these areas are (1) short pulse phenomena and optical guiding; (2) arrays of curved and tapered optical channel waveguides; semiconductor research for guided wave optical communication; and thermal and electrical transport characterization of optical integrated circuits.