电子类专业英语电子教案第十四课.pptVIP

14 Optical Communications 学习重点： （1）掌握有关光通信的基本单词、词组和缩略语的基本含义及用法 （2）培养阅读翻译有关光通信的科技文献和产品说明书的能力 （3）学习如何撰写科技论文英文摘要并初步掌握在内容、句法、时态、语态等方面的特点 生词 avalanche [ ?v?lɑ:n? ]?n. 雪崩 attenuation [ ??tenjuei??n ] n. 衰减 cladding [ kl?di? ] n. 金属包层；电镀 coaxial [ k?u‘?ks?l ] a 同轴的 distortion [ dist?:??n ] n. 扭曲；崎变 dispersion [ disp?:??n ] n. 散布, 分散 drawback [ dr?:.b?k ] n. 不利点 eliminate [ ilimineit ] v. 除去；排除；消除 incoherent [ .ink?uhi?r?nt ]?a. 不相干的 interference [ .int?fi?r?ns ] n.干涉 index [indeks] n. 索引；指针；指数 modal [ m?udl] a. 模态的 refractive [rifr?ktiv] a. 折射的 silica [ silik? ] n. 矽土；二氧化硅 sophisticate [ s?fistikeit ] v. 掺合；弄复杂 spectrum [ spektr?m ] n. 光谱 stray [ strei ] a. 杂散的 n. [pl.]杂散电容；天电干扰 2. 课文翻译讲解 Fibre-based systems have largely replaced radio transmit systems for long-haul data transmission, and largely used for telephony, Internet traffic, long high-speed local area networks (LANs), cable-TV, and increasingly also used for shorter distances. In most cases, silica fibers are used, except for very short distances, where plastic optical fibres can be advantageous. Compared with the systems based on electrical cables, there are a number of compelling advantages, which lead to the widespread adoption of fibre optic cable for telecommunications, the most important are: (1) Much lower levels of signal attenuation, ≈0.2?dB/km for modern single-mode silica fibers, so that many tens of kilometers can be bridged without amplifying the signals. (2) Fibre optic cabling provides a much higher bandwidth allowing more data to be delivered. For example, the wavelength range from 1.3?μm to 1.6?μm corresponds to a bandwidth as large as 43 THz, which are some orders of magnitude higher than that of any electrical cable. Even so, the theoretical potential of this bandwidth has not been fully utilized so far. (3) Fibre optic cables are much lighter than the coaxial cables, so that the cost of laying a fiber-optic cable is much lower than the coaxial cables.