Photonic Signal Processing

Spanning the current transitional period, this book addresses the merging techniques of processing and manipulating signals propagating in the optical domain. The author demonstrates the representation of photonic circuits using signal flow graph technique adapted for photonic domain. He describes differentiators and integrators and their applications for the generation of solitons, then covers the application of the solitons in optically amplified fiber transmission systems. The book illustrates the compensation dispersion and the design of optical filters using photonic processor techniques, and the filtering of microwave signals in the optical domain.