Telecommunications: Point-to-Point Systems and Networks, Information Carrying Capacity, The Need for Fiber-Optic Communications Systems, A Fiber-Optic Communications System: The Basic Blocks, Worldwide Submarine Networks, Electromagnetic Spectrum, Radiation & Absorption, Optical Fibers-Basics: Step-Index Fiber, Numerical Aperture, Attenuation, Calculation of Total Attenuation, Intermodal and Chromatic Dispersion, Graded-Index Fiber, The Structure of a Singlemode Fiber, Bit Rate and Bandwidth, Cutoff Wavelength, V-Number, Attenuation Constant, Dispersion in Multimode Fibers, Electrical & Optical Bandwidth, Spectral Width, Singlemode Fibers, Gaussian Beam, Bit Rate of a Singlemode Fiber, Fabrication, Cabling, and Installation, Fiber Cable Connectorization and Testing, Power Budget, Light Sources, Transmitters and Receivers; Transmitter Modules, Receiver Units, Components of Fiber-Optic Networks; Passive Components, Switches, Transceivers, TDM, WDM and DWDM systems, Add/Drop Problem, Multiplexing Hierarchy in Telecommunications, SONET & SDH Systems, FDDI, and Functional Modules of Fiber-Optic Networks-Telephone and Computer Networks, Networks, Protocols, and Services, OSI, ATM Networks and Layers; Broadband Communication System, Network Management and Future of Fiber-Optic Networks