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