Le Nguyen Binh is a technical director at the European Research Center of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. in Munich, Germany. He is the editor, author, and/or coauthor of numerous books, as well as the editor of CRC Press’ Optics and Photonics series.

"The topics studied in this book are very interesting. This book is very useful for people who work on photonic systems and optical communications." — Robinson Cruzoe Guzmán Martínez, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain"...the book is richly illustrated with diagrams and charts that describe the performance of practical systems, a precious reference for both students and professionals." — Optics & Photonics News, June 2017

• Preface. Acknowledgement. Introduction/Why noises are important in optical communications. Noises and Fundamental Sensitivity Limit. ASK transmission systems. Phase Modulation Systems. QAM modulation Systems. OFDM optical Systems. Optically amplified reception Systems. Raman amplification and noise processes. Phase noises and nonlinear noises. Compensation to combat noises. Quantum limits and receiver sensitivity. Noises in microwave photonic systems. Noises in photonic processing systems. Appendix 1: Techniques for electronic noise evaluations. Appendix 2: Essential terms of noises. Appendix 3: Essential parameters of noises and optical transmission lines.