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Overview of OFT V volumes A & B
Ivan P. Kaminow
*
, Tingye Li
†
, and Alan E. Willner
‡
*
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
†
Boulder, CO, USA
‡
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Optical Fiber Telecommunications V (OFT V) is the fifth install ment of t he OFT
series. Now 29 years old, the series is a compilation by the research and devel-
opment community of progress in optical fiber communications. Each edition
reflects the current state-of-the-art at the time. As Editors, we started w ith a clean
slate of chapters and authors. Our goal was to update topics from OFT IV that are
still relevant as well as to elucidate topics