Fiber-Optic Communications Systems, Third Edition. Govind P. Agrawal Copyright 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

. ISBNs: 0-471-21571-6 (Hardback); 0-471-22114-7 (Electronic)

Appendix B

Acronyms
Each scientic eld has its own jargon, and the eld of optical communications is not an exception. Although an attempt was made to avoid extensive use of acronyms, many still appear throughout the book. Each acronym is dened the rst time it appears in a chapter so that the reader does not have to search the entire text to nd its meaning. As a further help, we list all acronyms here, in alphabetical order. ac AM AON APD ASE ASK ATM AWG BER BH BPF CATV CDM CDMA CNR CPFSK CRZ CSMA CSO CVD CW CTB DBR dc DCF alternating current amplitude modulation all-optical network avalanche photodiode amplied spontaneous emission amplitude-shift keying asynchronous transfer mode arrayed-waveguide grating bit-error rate buried heterostructure bandpass lter common-antenna (cable) television code-division multiplexing code-division multiple access carrier-to-noise ratio continuous-phase frequency-shift keying chirped return-to-zero carrier-sense multiple access composite second-order chemical vapor deposition continuous wave composite triple beat distributed Bragg reector direct current dispersion-compensating ber 520

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DDF DFB DGD DIP DM DPSK EDFA FDDI FDM FET FM FP FSK FWHM FWM GVD HBT HDTV HEMT HFC HIPPI IC IF IMD IM/DD IMP IP ISDN ISI ITU LAN LEAF LED LO LPE LPF MAN MBE MCVD MEMS MOCVD MONET MPEG MPN MQW MSK dispersion-decreasing ber distributed feedback differential group delay dual in-line package dispersion-managed differential phase-shift keying erbium-doped ber amplier ber distributed data interface frequency-division multiplexing eld-effect transistor frequency modulation FabryPerot frequency-shift keying full-width at half-maximum four-wave mixing group-velocity dispersion heterojunction-bipolar transistor high-denition television high-electron-mobility transistor hybrid ber-coaxial high-performance parallel interface integrated circuit intermediate frequency intermodulation distortion intensity modulation with direct detection intermodulation product Internet protocol integrated services digital network intersymbol interference International Telecommunication Union local-area network large effective-area ber light-emitting diode local oscillator liquid-phase epitaxy low-pass lter metropolitan-area network molecular-beam epitaxy modied chemical vapor deposition micro-electro-mechanical system metal-organic chemical vapor deposition multiwavelength optical network motion-picture entertainment group mode-partition noise multiquantum well minimum-shift keying

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metalsemiconductormetal mode-suppression ratio mean time to failure MachZehnder numerical aperture noise-equivalent power nonlinear Schr odinger nonlinear optical-loop mirror nonreturn to zero nonlinear Schr odinger equation nonzero-dispersion-shifted ber optical carrier opto-electronic integrated circuit onoff keying optical phase conjugation optical time-division multiplexing outside-vapor deposition optical cross-connect pulse-code modulation probability density function polarization-division multiplexing powercurrent photonic integrated circuit phase modulation polarization-mode dispersion passive optical network phase-shift keying principal state of polarization quadrature amplitude modulation reverse-dispersion ber radio frequency relative intensity noise root-mean-square return to zero separate absorption, grading, charge, and multiplication separate absorption, grading, and multiplication separate absorption and multiplication stimulated Brillouin scattering subcarrier multiplexing synchronous digital hierarchy Syst` eme International single longitudinal mode signal-to-noise ratio semiconductor optical amplier synchronized optical network self-phase modulation

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SRS SSFS STM STS TCP TDM TE TM TOAD TOD TW VAD VCSEL VPE VSB WAN WDM WDMA WGR XPM YAG YIG ZDWL stimulated Raman scattering soliton self-frequency shift synchronous transport module synchronous transport signal transmission control protocol time-division multiplexing transverse electric transverse magnetic terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer third-order dispersion traveling wave vapor-axial deposition vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser vapor-phase epitaxy vestigial sideband wide-area network wavelength-division multiplexing wavelength-division multiple access waveguide-grating router cross-phase modulation yttrium aluminium garnet yttrium iron garnet zero-dispersion wavelength

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