Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to submarine fiber communication / Jos(acute)e Chesnoy, Jean Jerpahagnon -- Historical overview of submarine communication systems / G(acute)erard Fouchard -- Basics of digital optical communications / Philippe Gallion -- Optical amplification / Dominique Bayart -- Ultra-long-haul submarine transmission / Olivier Gautheron and Omar Ait Sab -- Unrepeatered transmission / E. Brandon and J.-P. Blondel -- Polarization effects in long-haul undersea systems / C.R. Menyuk ... [et al.] -- Nonlinear transmission techniques and solitons / S. Wabnitz -- Submerged plant / Neville J. Hazell, Christopher E. Little -- Terminal equipment / Katsuo Suzuki -- Networked architectures for submarine systems / Howard Kidorf -- Submarine fiber / Scott R. Bickham, Michael B. Cain -- Cable technology / Jean Fran(cedil)cois Libert and Gary Waterworth -- Marine and maintenance (from inception to the grave) / John Horne.