Editing Optical communication engineering (section)

==Course text==

The mandatory text is by Palais:  
* [http://www.amazon.com/Fiber-Optic-Communications-Joseph-Palais/dp/0130085103/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1280661775&sr=1-1 Palais:  ''Fibre Optic Communications''  5th Ed (Prentice Hall)]

These are the two Bibles in the field and are worth getting if you see your career in photonic aspects of electrical engineering:
* [http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Photonics-Wiley-Applied-Optics/dp/0471358320/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1280661997&sr=1-1 Salen & Teich:  ''Fundamentals of Photonics''  2nd Ed (Wiley-Interscience)]
* [http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Optics-Electromagnetic-Propagation-Interference/dp/0521642221/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1280663074&sr=1-1 Born and Wolf: ''Principles of Optics'' (Cambridge University Press)]

Optional reading for reference:
* [http://www.amazon.com/Lasers-Electro-optics-Fundamentals-Christopher-Davis/dp/0521484030/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1280663122&sr=1-1 Davis: ''Lasers and Electro-Optics'' (Cambridge University Press)]