Optical Coding Theory With Prime

The new field of optical coding theory helps in designing new classes of optical codes for various coding-based optical applications, such as the well-known optical code division multiple access (CDMA). While there are books on coding theory for wireless communications, there is no book specifically dedicated to optical coding theory. In a clear, concise manner, this book presents the mathematical concepts essential to optical coding theory. It covers Galois fields, vector space, matrix theory, Markov chain, and algebraic tools for performance analysis. After providing readers with the mathematical tools, the authors describe applications of optical codes in various coding schemes along with supporting hardware technologies. They also focus on 1-D, 2-D, and 3-D prime codes.

Wing C. Kwong is currently a professor in the Department of Engineering at Hofstra University, New York. He has published numerous professional articles, chaired technical sessions and served technical program committees in international conferences, and has given seminars and tutorials around the world. His research interests include optical and wireless communication systems and multiple-access networks, optical interconnection networks, and ultrafast all-optical signal processing techniques. Dr. Kwong is a senior member of the IEEE and is currently an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He received a NEC Graduate Fellowship awarded by the NEC Research Institute, Princeton, New Jersey, in 1991, and the Young Engineer Award from the IEEE (Long Island chapter) in 1998.

Guu-Chang Yang is currently a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering at National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. His research interests include wireless and optical communication systems, modulation and signal processing techniques, and applications of CDMA. Dr. Yang is the area coordinator of the National Science Council’s Telecommunications Program (2012-2014), co-coordinator of the National Science Council’s National Networked Communication Program (2010-2013), and chairman of the IEEE Communications Society Taipei Chapter (2013-2014). He became an IEEE Fellow in 2012 for contributions to optical CDMA. He has received several awards, including the Distinguished Research Award from the National Science Council in 2004, and the Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer Award in 2003 and the Distinguished Electrical Engineering Professor Award in 2012, both from the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering.