This book provides a comprehensive account of the state of the art of lightwave technology and is devoted to active and passive components including a discussion of optical fibers, couplers, Bragg gratings, filters, interferometers, multiplexers and demultiplexers, waveguide-grating routers, wavelenth converters, and optical switches. An attempt is made to include as much recent material as possible so tghat students are exposed to the recent advances in this exciting field. The reference list at the end of each chapter is more elaborate than what is common for a typical textbook. The listing of recent research papers should be useful for researchers using the book as a reference. A set of problems is included at the end of each chapter.
Preface. 1. Optical Fibers. 2. Passive Fiber Components. 3. Active Fiber Components. 4. Planar Waveguides. 5. Semiconductor Lasers and Amplifiers. 6. Optical Modulators. 7. Photodetectors. 8. WDM Components. 9. Optical Switching. 10. Time-Domain Switching. Appendix A: System of Units. Appendix B: Software Package. Appendix C: Acronyms. Index.
Govind Agrawal is a Professor at the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester and a Fellow of both the Optical Society of America and the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineering. He is the author or co-author of over 300 research papers, book chapters, and monographs.