文档介绍：Building the Global
Fiber Optics Superhighway
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Building the Global
Fiber Optics Superhighway
C. David Chaffee
Chaffee Fiber Optics
Ellicott City, Maryland
Kluwer Academic Publishers
New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow
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To Katie and Caroline
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank the following for their insight, encouragement, and general
support in helping me write this book.
At the top of the list are Kluwer Academic /Plenum editors Tom Cohn and
Anna Bozicevic, without whom this book truly would not have been written. Tom,
who has since left pany, had the good grace to listen stoically to my
rantings about the exploding fiber optics industry one evening in a beverage line at
OFC '98, and the rest, as they say, is history. Anna Bozicevic has been a steadying
source, whose encouragement has kept the project on course.
Of the many others who also helped immeasurably, I would like to thank Ken
Taylor and Larry Johnson for encouraging me to write this book. Both are industry
pros who understand the importance of getting the message out. Others who
provided expertise include Mike Newsom, Loreli Lees, Cindana Turkatte, Tom
Phillips, Steve and Jeff Montgomery, Kevin Tanzillo, Mike Peppler, Duane Pier-
soll, Paul Rogoski, John Knight, Lawrence Gasman, Loren Talley, Rich Moran, C.
David Broecker, Kathleen Coplien Szelag, Pat Robinson, Hans Ehnert, Steve
McAbee, Joe Berthold, Barbara Duchez, Mike Unger, Jim Chiddix, Mark Lau-
roesch, Dave Pangrac, Philip Bell