This research- and application-oriented book covers main topical areas of optical fibers. The selection of the chapters is weighted on technological and application-specific topics, very much a reflection of where research is heading to and what researchers are looking for. Chapters are arranged in a user-friendly format essentially self-contained and with extensive cross-references. They are organized in the following sections:- Optical Fiber Communication Editors: Ming-Jun Li and Chao Lu



Solitons and Nonlinear Waves in Optical Fibers Editor: Boris A. Malomed



Optical Fiber Fabrication Editor: Hairul Azhar Bin Abdul Rashid



Active Optical Fibers Editor: Kyunghwan Oh



Special Optical Fibers Editors: Perry Shum and Zhilin Xu



Optical Fiber Measurement Editor: Jianzhong Zhang



Optical Fiber Devices Editors: John Canning and Tuan Guo



Optical Fiber Device Measurement Editor: Yanhua Luo



Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing Editor: Yosuke Mizuno



Optical Fiber Sensors for Industrial Applications Editor: Tong Sun OBE



Polymer Optical Fiber Sensing Editor: Ginu Rajan



Photonic Crystal Fiber Sensing Editor: D. N. Wang



Optical Fiber Microfluidic Sensors Editor: Yuan Gong