Optical Fibers : New Developments

[BOOK DESCRIPTION]

This book is a collection of contributions by rewned scientists in the optical fibre techlogy field, covering a wide range of recent progress pertaining to various topics such as special optical fibres, n-linear effects in optical fibre, components and devices for communication systems as well as optical fibre sensors. Inevitably, many aspects are omitted but each chapter is a representative example of the latest trends and results in a rapidly evolving research scenario. This collection is enriched by a few expert commentaries on selected topics, highlighting recent invative developments and a future outlook in optical fibre techlogy.

[TABLE OF CONTENTS]

 Foreword                                           vii
Preface                                            ix
      Expert Commentaries                          1  (22)
        Evolutions of Transmission Fiber           3  (6)
          Masaaki Hirano
        Emerging Topics in Nonlinear Fiber         9  (6)
        Optics
          Stefan Wabnitz
        Designing Supercontinuum Fiber Light       15 (8)
        Sources "A La Carte" for Biomedical
        Applications
          Albert Ferrando
      Chapters                                     23 (2)
    Chapter 1 Microfiber Coil Resonators:          25 (28)
    Theory, Manufacture and Application
          Fei Xu
          Wei Guo
          Wei Hu
          Yan-qing Lu
    Chapter 2 Graded-Index Plastic Optical         53 (34)
    Fibers: Materials and Fabrication Techniques
          Kotaro Koike
          Yasuhiro Koike
          Yoshiyuki Okamoto
    Chapter 3 BDK-Doped Polymer Optical Fiber      87 (40)
    (BPOF) Gratings: Design, Fabrication and
    Sensing Application
          Yanhua Luo
          Qijin Zhang
          Gang-Ding Peng
    Chapter 4 Microfabrication on the Surface      127(56)
    of Optical Fibers for the Next Generation
    of MEMS devices
          Harutaka Mekaru
    Chapter 5 Dynamics of Bright Solitons and      183(22)
    Their Collisions for the Inhomogeneous
    Coupled Nonlinear Schrodinger-Maxwell-Bloch
    Equations
          Camus Gaston Latchio Tiofack
          Alidou Mohamadou
          Timoleon Crepin Kofane
          Kuppuswamy Porsezian
    Chapter 6 Solitons in Optical Fibers with      205(18)
    Power Loss/Gain and Phase Modulation
          M. Idrish Miah
    Chapter 7 Last-Mile Technologies New WDM       223(56)
    Access Proposals, Devices and Experiments
          Qian Deniel
          Fabienne Saliou
          Philippe Chanclou
          Lucia Marazzi
          Paola Parolari
          Marco Brunero
          Alberto Gatto
          Mario Martinelli
          Giancarlo Gavioli
          Alessandro Iachelini
          Antonio Cimmino
          R. Brenot
          Sophie Barbet
          Francois Lelarge
          Sean O'Duill
          Simon Gebrewald
          Christian Koos
          Wolfgang Freude
          Juerg Leuthold
    Chapter 8 Optical Fiber Connection             279(26)
    Technologies: Current and Novel Field
    Installable Connectors
          Mitsuru Kihara
    Chapter 9 New Advances in Tapered Fiber        305(12)
    Sensors
          Ricardo M. Andre
          Manuel B. Marques
          Orlando Frazao
    Chapter 10 Smart CFRP Systems with Embedded    317(14)
    FBG for Structural Monitoring and
    Retrofitting
          Maria-Barbara Schaller
          Stefan Kaeseberg
          Torsten Thiel
    Chapter 11 Optical Fiber Sensors for Vital     331(22)
    Signs Monitoring
          Zhihao Chen
          Doreen Lau
          Pin Lin Kei
Index                                              353