Acknowledgments

I am grateful to Huawei Technologies for the availability of laboratories and facilities to carry out the studies. The chapters of this edition were finalized while I was technical director of the company’s European Research Centre in Munich, while the first version was structured at the Christian Albretchs University of Kiel in Germany, where I spent a sabbatical year as a professorial fellow in the Chair of Communications. Thus, I thank Prof. Dr. W. Rosenkranz for the many fruitful discussions with him.

I am grateful to Dr. Thomas Lee of SHF AG, Berlin, Germany, and formerly of Nortel Networks, for advice and the loan of various optical transmitters and receivers and purchase of 40 Gbps BERT for the experiments on ASK and ...

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