Handbook of Optical Fibers

Editors: Perry Shum and Zhilin Xu - Optical Fiber Measurement Editors: John Canning and Tuan Guo - Optical Fiber Device Measurement Editor: Yanhua Luo - Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing Editor: Tong Sun OBE - Polymer Optical Fiber Sensing This handbook aims to be a comprehensive and up-to-date reference tool for students, scientists, engineers and industrial practitioners who are working in an area of the optical fiber field. The book includes five sections that cover the following subtopics as follows:• Optical Fiber Fundamentals including fiber materials and characteristics, fiber design, analysis, fabrication, test, etc; • Optical Fibers including all conventional and special fibers; • Optical Fiber Devices including all passive and active fiber devices and components, such as fiber couplers, fiber connectors, fiber gratings, fiber amplifiers and fiber lasers; • Optical Fiber Communication including main optical fiber communication techniques and systems • Optical Fiber Sensing including main optical fiber sensing and systems 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 andZhilin 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