Guided Wave Optical Components and Devices

Preface

Editor

Bishnu Pal

Optical fibers, from the point of view of telecommunication, is now taken for granted in view of its wide-ranging application as the most suitable singular transmission medium for voice, video, and data signals. In the last two decades, the world has witnessed an enormous growth in Lightwave communication and associated technologies. Initial revolution in this field centered on achieving optical transparency in terms of exploiting the low-loss and low-dispersion transmission wavelength windows of high-silica optical fibers. The development of broadband optical fiber amplifiers in the form of Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifiers (EDFA), which led to the birth of the era of dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) technology ...