Optical Fiber Telecommunications Volume VIA (6^th Ed.)
Components and Subsystems
Optics and Photonics Series

Optical Fiber Telecommunications VI (A&B) is the sixth in a series that has chronicled the progress in the R&D of lightwave communications since the early 1970s. Written by active authorities from academia and industry, this edition brings a fresh look to many essential topics, including devices, subsystems, systems and networks. A central theme is the enabling of high-bandwidth communications in a cost-effective manner for the development of customer applications. These volumes are an ideal reference for R&D engineers and managers, optical systems implementers, university researchers and students, network operators, and investors.

Volume Ais devoted to components and subsystems, including photonic integrated circuits, multicore and few-mode fibers, photonic crystals, silicon photonics, signal processing, and optical interconnections.

Overview of OFT VI A&B 1. Advances in Fiber Lasers 2. Semiconductor Photonic Integrated Circuit Transmitters and Receivers 3. Advances in Photodetectors & Receivers 4. Fundamentals of Photonic Crystals for Telecom Applications 5. High-Speed Polymer Optical Modulators 6. Nanophotonics for Low-Power Switches 7. Fibers for Short-Distance Applications (Multimode Fibers, Bendable Fibers) 8. Few-Mode Fiber Technology for Spatial Multiplexing 9. Multi-Core Optical Fibers 10. Plastic Optical Fibers and Gb/s Data Links 11. Integrated and Hybrid Photonics for High Performance Interconnects 12. CMOS Photonics for High Performance Interconnects 13. Hybrid Silicon Lasers 14. VCSEL-Based Data Links 15. Implementation Aspects of Coherent Transmit and Receive Functions in Application-Specific Integrated Circuits 16. All-Optical Regeneration of Phase Encoded Signals 17. Ultra-High-Speed Optical Time Division Multiplexing 18. Technology and Applications of Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) in Telecommunications

R&D engineers working on developing next generation optical components; fiber optic systems and network engineers; graduates and academic researchers.

Ivan Kaminow retired from Bell Labs in 1996 after a 42-year career. He conducted seminal studies on electrooptic modulators and materials, Raman scattering in ferroelectrics, integrated optics, semiconductor lasers (DBR , ridge-waveguide InGaAsP and multi-frequency), birefringent optical fibers, and WDM networks. Later, he led research on WDM components (EDFAs, AWGs and fiber Fabry-Perot Filters), and on WDM local and wide area networks. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a recipient of the IEEE/OSA John Tyndall, OSA Charles Townes and IEEE/LEOS Quantum Electronics Awards. Since 2004, he has been Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
Tingye Li (July 1931- Dec. 2012) retired from AT&T in 1998 after a 41-year career at Bell Labs and AT&T Labs. His seminal work on laser resonator modes is considered a classic. Since the late 1960s, he and his groups had conducted pioneering studies on lightwave technologies and systems. He led the work on amplified WDM transmission systems and championed their deployment for upgrading network capacity. He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He was a recipient of the IEEE Edison Medal, OSA Ives Medal, IEEE Ph