Contents:

ch 1 Advances in Fiber Distributed-Feedback Lasers
ch 2 semiconductor Photonic Integrated Circuit Transmitters
and Receivers
ch 3 Advances in Photodetectors and Optical
ch 4 Fundamentals of Photonic Crystals for Telecom
Applications─Photonic Crystal Lasers
Ch 5 High-Speed Polymer Optical Modulators
ch 6 Nanophotonics for Low-Power Switches
ch 7 Fibers for Short-Distance Applications
ch 8 Few-Mode Fiber Technology for Spatial Multiplexing
Ch 9 Multi-Core Optical Fibers
ch10 Plastic Optical Fibers and Gb/s Data Links
ch11 Integrated and Hybrid Photonics for High-Performance
Interconnects
ch12 CMOS Photonics for High Performance Interconnects
ch13 Hybrid Silicon Lasers
ch14 VCSEL-Based Data Links
ch15 Implementation Aspects of Coherent Transmit and Receive
Functions in Application-Specific Integrated Circuits
ch16 All-Optical Regeneration of Phase Encoded Signals
ch17 Ultra-High-Speed Optical Time Division Multiplexing
ch18 Technology and Applications of Liquid Crystal on Silicon
(LCoS) in Telecommunications