Solving the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation -- Modulation and Detection Techniques for DWDW Systems -- Best Optical Filtering for Duobinary Transmission -- Theoretical Limits for the Dispersion Limited Optical Channel -- Capacity Bounds for Mimo Poisson Channels with Inter-symbol interference -- QSpace Project: Quantum Cryptography in Space -- Quantum-aided Classical Cryptography with a Moving Target -- Channel Coding for Optical Communications -- Soft Decoding in Optical Systems: Turbo Product Codes vs. LDPC Codes -- Iterative Decoding and Error Code Correction Method in Holographic Data Storage -- Performance of Optical Time-spread CDMA/PPM with Multiple Access and Multipath Interference -- Performance Analysis and Comparison of Trellis-coded and Turbo-coded Optical CDMA Systems -- A Methodology for Calculating Performance in an Optical Fiber Communications System -- Markov Chain Monte Carlo Technique for Outage Probability Evaluation in PMD-compensated Systems -- A Parametric Gain Approach to Performance Evaluation of DPSK/DQPSK Systems with Nonlinear Phase Noise -- Characterization of Intrachannel Nonlinear Distortion in Ultra-high Bit-rate Transmission Systems -- Mathematical and Experimental Analysis of Interferometric Crosstalk Noise Incorporating Chirp Effect in Directly Modulated Systems -- On the Impact of MPI in All-Raman Dispersion-compensated IMDD and DPSK Links -- Modulation Formats for Optical Fiber Transmission -- Dispersion Limitations in Optical Systems Using Offset DPSK Modulation -- Integrated Optical Fir-filters for Adaptive Equalization of Fiber Channel Impairments at 40 Gbit/s -- Performance of Electronic Equalization Applied to Innovative Transmission Techniques -- Performance Bounds of MLSE in Intensity Modulated Fiber Optic Links -- On MLSE Reception of Chromatic Dispersion Tolerant Modulation Schemes.

This book is a collection of papers dealing with the theoretical aspects of optical communications. It is divided into four parts: Information and Communication Theory for Optical Communications; Coding Theory and Techniques; Characterizing, Measuring, and Calculating Performance in Optical Fiber Communication Systems; and Modulation Formats and Detection. Each paper is self-contained, and will give the reader a clear picture of the treated topic, an overview of the theoretical aspects, and an idea of the most recent advances.