Publisher's Synopsis
This research- and application-oriented book covers main topical areas of optical fibers. The selection of the chapters is weighted on technological and application-specific topics, very much a reflection of where research is heading to and what researchers are looking for. Chapters are arranged in a user-friendly format essentially self-contained and with extensive cross-references. They are organized in the following sections:
- Optical Fiber Communication | Editors: Ming-Jun Li and Chao Lu
- Solitons and Nonlinear Waves in Optical Fibers | Editor: Boris A. Malomed
- Optical Fiber Fabrication | Editor: Hairul Azhar Bin Abdul Rashid
- Active Optical Fibers | Editor: Kyunghwan Oh
- Special Optical Fibers | Editors: Perry Shum and Zhilin Xu
- Optical Fiber Measurement | Editor: Jianzhong Zhang
- Optical Fiber Devices | Editors: John Canning and Tuan Guo
- Optical Fiber Device Measurement | Editor: Yanhua Luo
- Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing | Editor: Yosuke Mizuno
- Optical Fiber Sensors for Industrial Applications | Editor: Tong Sun OBE
- Polymer Optical Fiber Sensing | Editor: Ginu Rajan
- Photonic Crystal Fiber Sensing | Editor: D. N. Wang
- Optical Fiber Microfluidic Sensors | Editor: Yuan Gong
