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