This book provides a well-balanced combination of optoelectronics and communications theory to complement more introductory texts in the field. It covers the fundamentals of operation of the main system components together with their limitations in the context of different system requrements.

This volume provides single-source coverage of the key aspects and components of the optical communication system -- the fiber itself, the components used for the optical source and the detector, and the receiver and general system considerations. It covers the semi-classical approach to the propagation of radiation through matter, the development of semiconductor theory directed from the beginning towards III-V semiconductors and optoelectronic components, and some elementary theory of communications.