Appendix D
List of Important Roman Symbols
Symbol
Definition
a
Fiber radius
A eff
Effective area
B
Bandwidth
B e
Receiver electrical bandwidth
B o
Optical bandwidth
c
Speed of light = 2.99793 × 10 8 m/s
C j
Detector junction capacitance
d
Hole diameter in a PCF
D
Dispersion
D mat
Material dispersion
D n
Electron diffusion coefficient
D p
Hole diffusion coefficient
D wg
Waveguide dispersion
DR
Dynamic range
E
Energy (E = hν)
E
Electric field
E g
Bandgap energy
E LO
Local oscillator field
f
Frequency of a wave
F
Finesse of a filter
F(M)
Noise figure for APD with gain M
f(s)
Probability density function
F EDFA
EDFA noise figure
g
Gain coefficient (Fabry-Perot cavity)
(continued)
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license
to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
G. Keiser, Fiber Optic Communications,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4665-9
635
List of Important Roman Symbols
Symbol
Definition
a
Fiber radius
A eff
Effective area
B
Bandwidth
B e
Receiver electrical bandwidth
B o
Optical bandwidth
c
Speed of light = 2.99793 × 10 8 m/s
C j
Detector junction capacitance
d
Hole diameter in a PCF
D
Dispersion
D mat
Material dispersion
D n
Electron diffusion coefficient
D p
Hole diffusion coefficient
D wg
Waveguide dispersion
DR
Dynamic range
E
Energy (E = hν)
E
Electric field
E g
Bandgap energy
E LO
Local oscillator field
f
Frequency of a wave
F
Finesse of a filter
F(M)
Noise figure for APD with gain M
f(s)
Probability density function
F EDFA
EDFA noise figure
g
Gain coefficient (Fabry-Perot cavity)
(continued)
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license
to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
G. Keiser, Fiber Optic Communications,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4665-9
635