Handbook of Optical Fibers

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