IOP Concise Physics Series on Electromagnetics and Metamaterials

Optical Fiber Multiplexing and Emerging Techniques

Syed H Murshid

This book begins with the history and fundamentals of optical fiber communications. Then, briefly introduces existing optical multiplexing techniques and finally focuses on spatial domain multiplexing (SDM), aka space division multiplexing, and orbital angular momentum of photon based multiplexing. These are two emerging multiplexing techniques that have added two new degrees of photon freedom to optical fibers.