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
Single-Mode Fibers for High Speed and Long-Haul Transmission
Multimode Fibers for Data Centers
Multi-core Fibers for Space Division Multiplexing
Optical Coherent Detection and Digital Signal Processing of Channel
Impairments
A Brief History of Fiber-Optic Soliton Transmission
Perturbations of Solitons in Optical Fibers
Emission of Dispersive Waves from Solitons in Axially Varying Optical Fibers
Nonlinear Waves in Multimode Fibers
Shock Waves
A Variety of Dynamical Settings in Dual-Core Nonlinear Fibers
Advanced Nano-engineered Glass-Based Optical Fibers for Photonics
Applications
Fabrication of Negative Curvature Hollow Core Fiber
Optimized Fabrication of Thulium Doped Silica Optical Fiber Using MCVD
Microfiber: Physics and Fabrication
Flat Fibers: Fabrication and Modal Characterization
3D Silica Lithography for Future Optical Fiber Fabrication
Rare-Earth-Doped Laser Fiber Fabrication Using Vapor Deposition Technique
Powder Process for Fabrication of Rare Earth-Doped Fibers for Lasers and
Amplifiers
Progress in Mid-infrared Fiber Source Development
Crystalline Fibers for Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers
Cladding-Pumped Multicore Fiber Amplifier for Space Division Multiplexing
Optical Amplifiers for Mode Division Multiplexing
Optical Fibers for High-Power Lasers
Multicore Fibers
Polymer Optical Fibers
Optical Fibers in Terahertz Domain
Optical Fibers for Biomedical Applications
Basics of Optical Fiber Measurements
Measurement of Active Optical Fibers
Characterization of Specialty Fibers
Characterization of Distributed Birefringence in Optical Fibers
Characterization of Distributed Polarization-Mode Coupling for Fiber Coils
Materials Development for Advanced Optical Fiber Sensors and Lasers
Optoelectronic Fibers
Fiber Grating Devices
CO2-laser-inscribed long period fiber gratings: from fabrication to
applications
Micro-/Nano-optical Fiber Devices
Measurement of Optical Fiber Grating
Measurement of Optical Fibre Amplifier
Measurement of Optical Fiber Laser
Distributed Rayleigh Sensing
Distributed Raman Sensing
Distributed Brillouin Sensing: Time-Domain Techniques
Distributed Brillouin Sensing: Frequency-Domain Techniques
Distributed Brillouin Sensing: Correlation-Domain Techniques
Optical Fibre Sensors for Remote Condition Monitoring of Industrial
Structures
Optical Fiber Sensor Network and Industrial Applications
Fibre Optic Sensors for Coal Mine Hazard Detection
Optical Fiber Sensors in Ionizing Radiation Environments
Polymer Optical Fiber Sensors and Devices
Solid Core Single-Mode Polymer Fiber Gratings and Sensors
Microstructured Polymer Optical Fiber Gratings and Sensors
Polymer Fiber Sensors for Structural and Civil Engineering Applications
Photonic Microcells for Sensing Applications
Filling Technologies of Photonic Crystal Fibers and Their Applications
Photonic Crystal Fiber-Based Grating Sensors
Photonic Crystal Fiber-Based Interferometer Sensors
Optical Fiber Microfluidic Sensors Based on Opto-physical Effects
Micro-/Nano-Optical Fiber Microfluidic Sensors
All Optical Fiber Optofluidic or Ferrofluidic Microsensors Fabricated by
Femtosecond Laser Micromachining
Gang-Ding Peng received his B.Sc. degree in physics from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 1982, and the M.Sc. degree in applied physics and Ph.D. in electronic engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 1984 and 1987, respectively. From 1987 through 1988 he was a lecturer at Jiao Tong University. He was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Optical Sciences Centre of the Australian National University, Canberra, from 1988 to 1991. He has been working at the University of NSW in Sydney, Australia, since 1991; was a Queen Elizabeth II Fellow from 1992 to 1996; and is currently a professor in the same university. He is a fellow and life member of both Optical Society of America (OSA) and The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). His research interests include silica and polymer optical fibers, optical fiber and waveguide devices, optical fiber sensors, and nonlinear optics. He has worked in research and teaching in photonics and fiber optics for more than 30 years and maintained a high research profile internationally.
