Optical Fiber Telecommunications VI (A&B) is the sixth in a series that has chronicled the progress in the R&D of lightwave communications since the early 1970s. Written by active authorities from academia and industry, this edition brings a fresh look to many essential topics, including devices, subsystems, systems and networks. A central theme is the enabling of high-bandwidth communications in a cost-effective manner for the development of customer applications. These volumes are an ideal reference for R&D engineers and managers, optical systems implementers, university researchers and students, network operators, and investors.

Volume A is devoted to components and subsystems, including photonic integrated circuits, multicore and few-mode fibers, photonic crystals, silicon photonics, signal processing, and optical interconnections.

• All the latest technologies and techniques for developing future components and systems
• Edited by two winners of the highly prestigious OSA/IEEE John Tyndal award and a President of IEEE's Lasers & Electro-Optics Society (7,000 members)
• Written by leading experts in the field, it is the most authoritative and comprehensive reference on optical engineering the market

Overview of OFT VI A&B 1. Advances in Fiber Lasers 2. Semiconductor Photonic Integrated Circuit Transmitters and Receivers 3. Advances in Photodetectors & Receivers 4. Fundamentals of Photonic Crystals for Telecom Applications 5. High-Speed Polymer Optical Modulators 6. Nanophotonics for Low-Power Switches 7. Fibers for Short-Distance Applications (Multimode Fibers, Bendable Fibers) 8. Few-Mode Fiber Technology for Spatial Multiplexing 9. Multi-Core Optical Fibers 10. Plastic Optical Fibers and Gb/s Data Links 11. Integrated and Hybrid Photonics for High Performance Interconnects 12. CMOS Photonics for High Performance Interconnects 13. Hybrid Silicon Lasers 14. VCSEL-Based Data Links 15. Implementation Aspects of Coherent Transmit and Receive Functions in Application-Specific Integrated Circuits 16. All-Optical Regeneration of Phase Encoded Signals 17. Ultra-High-Speed Optical Time Division Multiplexing 18. Technology and Applications of Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) in Telecommunications