Author Description

<p>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. <br><br>The book includes five sections that cover the following subtopics as follows:<br><br>• Optical Fiber Fundamentals including fiber materials and characteristics, fiber design, analysis, fabrication, test, etc; </p><br/><p>• Optical Fibers including all conventional and special fibers; </p><br/><p>• 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; </p><br/><p>• Optical Fiber Communication including main optical fiber communication techniques and systems </p><br/><p>• Optical Fiber Sensing including main optical fiber sensing and systems<br></p>