Fiber-optic communication systems have advanced dramatically over the last four decades, since the era of copper cables, resulting in low-cost and high-bandwidth transmission. Fiber optics is now the backbone of the internet and long-distance telecommunication. Without it we would not enjoy the benefits of high-speed internet, or low-rate international telephone calls. This book introduces the basic concepts of fiber-optic communication in a pedagogical way. The important mathematical results are derived by first principles rather than citing research articles. In addition, physical interpretations and real-world analogies are provided to help students grasp the fundamental concepts. Key Features: <ul>
<li>Lucid explanation of key topics such as fibers, lasers, and photodetectors.</li> <li>Includes recent developments such as coherent communication and digital signal processing.</li> <li>Comprehensive treatment of fiber nonlinear transmission.</li> <li>Worked examples, exercises, and answers.</li> <li>Accompanying website with PowerPoint slides and numerical experiments in MATLAB.</li> </ul>
Intended primarily for senior undergraduates and graduates studying fiber-optic communications, the book is also suitable as a professional resource for researchers working in the field of fiber-optic communications.

Fiber Optic Communications: Fundamentals and Applications

Science & Math

Kumar, Shiva

Deen, M. Jamal

Physics

wiley

WITNESS: Voices from the Holocaust

"When the sun came up, it was not like the sun -- I swear to you! It was not bright. It was always red to me; it was always black to me. It never said, never, never was life to me. It was destruction! The sun was never beautiful." -- Edith P., survivor of Auschwitz and Salzwedel concentration camps 
 "I was born on the train and I died on the train. I actually didn't know why I was there on the train and what was happening to us. I wasn't even alive. I wasn't there." -- Bessie K., age 19, deported 1943 
 "What I felt when the liberation came? That I am alone in the whole world....I had no desire to live. I had no place to go. I had nobody to talk to. I was just simply lost, without words." -- Hanna F., sole survivor of her family of five 
 Fifty-five years after the end of World War II, the Holocaust continues to cast a dark shadow. Historians, theologians, philosophers, and others have tried to explain how and why the Holocaust occurred, but their theories often give short shrift to the personal accounts of the individuals involved. For the past twenty years, the Fortunoff Video Archive at Yale University has sought to preserve the human side of this inhuman era by videotaping testimonies from those who lived through the Nazi era, a project that has led to an acclaimed documentary film and this extraordinary book. As the noted Holocaust scholar Lawrence L. Langer writes in his foreword, "Without survivor testimony, the human dimension of the catastrophe would remain a subject of speculation. The voices of the victimized provide us with an intimate glimpse of daily existence [and] furnish a version of the atrocity that the killers chose not to preserve." 
 In Witness: Voices from the Holocaust, Joshua M. Greene and Shiva Kumar weave a single and compelling narrative from the first-person accounts of twenty-seven witnesses, including Jews, Gentiles, Americans, a member of the Hitler Youth, a Jesuit priest, resistance fighters, and child survivors. They tell stories of life under the Nazis, in the ghettos, concentration camps, and death camps, and they recount the mixed emotions that accompanied liberation and persisted in the years following the Holocaust. Their experiences reveal what it is like to live in a world where there were no clear moral options, and most choices were between bad and worse; even for those who survived, there were no happy endings. The vivid and detailed memories of these witnesses testify to the continuing impact of this human catastrophe, and their impassioned words lend immediacy to events that resonate to this day.

Witness: Voices from the Holocaust

History

Greene, Joshua M.

World

Free Press

Exploring the interface of nuclear, particle and astrophysics, this volume of proceedings reviews strangeness production in high energy heavy ion collisions, as well as the physics and astrophysics of strange matter and stragelets. It also reports in detail on related work in progress.

International Symposium on Strangeness and Quark Matter: Orthodox Academie of Krete Kolymbari, Krete, Hellas September 1-5, 1994

International Symposium on Strangeness and Quark Matter (1st : 1994 : Orthodox Academie of Krete)

Panagiotou, Apostolos D.

Madsen, Jes

Vassiliadis, Georges

World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Exploration of Horizons: Reflective Journeys from 2022-2023

Travel

Tucker, Madison

United States

Independently published

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