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