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 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

• Active Fiber Devices
• Fiber Amplifiers
• Fiber Connectors
• Fiber Couplers
• Fiber Gratings
• Fiber Lasers
• Optical Fiber Communication
• Optical Fiber Materials
• Optical Fiber Sensing
• Passive Fiber Devices

• Photonics and Optical Communications, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

  Gang-Ding Peng

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 photonicsand fiber optics for more than 30 years and maintained a high research profile internationally.

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