Silica Optical Fiber Technology for Devices and Components: Design, Fabrication, and International Standards

Acknowledgment

The authors would like to express their sincere thankfulness to their beloved family, Un-Chul Paek’s wife and his daughter: Jae Hack, and Audrey, and Kyunghwan Oh’s wife and his daughters: Hyeyon, Seiyon, and Seijung. Without their kind support, continuous encouragement and sincere understanding, completion of this book would have not been possible.

The authors also acknowledge numerous helps from former students: Hong Seok Seo, Woojin Shin, Soan Kim, Yongmin Jung, Jun Ki Kim, at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology and graduate students at Yonsei University, Sejin Lee, Woosung Ha, Sehun Kang, Jongki Kim, Jiyoung Park, Marzier Pournoury. Especially Dr. Hong Seok Seo’s effort and dedication in the software program for optical fiber design was essential in this book.

I would have never expected to have this book published without bright smile and bit hug from the co-author, Prof. Un-Chul Paek, who has suddenly passed away in May 3’rd 2011. As an inventor of fast optical fiber drawing process and dispersion shifted optical fiber, Prof. Paek contributed to change optical fiber from a laboratory specimen to an industrial necessity in the information era. In addition to technical achievement, he served as a source of professional inspiration and as a role model for generation of young students and researchers. It was Prof. Paek’s ardor and gusto that made this book started. As a co-author, I sincerely hope that his passion toward fiber optics would be carried to ...