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 andZhilin 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