This book delivers more than its title seems to promise. Rather than simply presenting the key principles of Optical Code Division Multiple Access (OCDMA), it also provides a very useful introduction to optical fiber transmission systems. As such, given some additional material (e.g., on principles of semiconductor lasers), this book could serve as a text for a course on optical communications networks. The first section covers basic principles, while the second part focuses on OCDMA. The chapters include a range of exercises designed to test the reader’s understanding of the material laid out in the book’s 345 pages. The text is well-illustrated and includes an appropriate selection of references. As suggested above, there could perhaps have been a brief discussion of the basic principles of semiconductor lasers, but otherwise this book does more than it says “on the tin."
Review by K. Alan Shore, Bangor University, School of Electronic Engineering, Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom.
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