Optical fiber telecommunications V : A. Components and subsystems

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Chapter 1. Overview of OFT V Volumes A & B / Ivan P. Kaminow, Tingye Li, and Alan E. Willner -- Chapter 2. Semiconductor Quantum Dots: Genesis—The Excitonic Zoo—Novel Devices for Future Applications / Dieter Bimberg -- Chapter 3. High-Speed Low-Chirp Semiconductor Lasers / Shun Lien Chuang, Guobin Liu, and Piotr Konrad Kondratko -- Chapter 4. Recent Advances in Surface-Emitting Lasers / Fumio Koyama -- Chapter 5. Pump Diode Lasers / Christoph Harder -- Chapter 6. Ultrahigh-Speed Laser Modulation by Injection Locking / Connie J. Chang-Hasnain and Xiaoxue Zhao -- Chapter 7. Recent Developments in High-Speed Optical Modulators / Lars Thyle´n, Urban Westergren, Petter Holmström, Richard Schatz, and Peter Jänes -- Chapter 8. Advances in Photodetectors / Joe Charles Campbell -- Chapter 9. Planar Lightwave Circuits in Fiber-Optic Communications / Christopher R. Doerr and Katsunari Okamoto -- Chapter 10. III–V Photonic Integrated Circuits and Their Impact on Optical Network Architectures / Dave Welch, Chuck Joyner, Damien Lambert, Peter W. Evans, and Maura Raburn -- Chapter 11. Silicon Photonics / Cary Gunn and Thomas L. Koch -- Chapter 12. Photonic Crystal Theory: Temporal Coupled-Mode Formalism / Shanhui Fan -- Chapter 13. Photonic Crystal Technologies: Experiment / Susumu Noda -- Chapter 14. Photonic Crystal Fibers: Basics and Applications / Philip St John Russell -- Chapter 15. Specialty Fibers for Optical Communication Systems / Ming-Jun Li, Xin Chen, Daniel A. Nolan, Ji Wang, James A. West, and Karl W. Koch -- Chapter 16. Plastic Optical Fibers: Technologies and Communication Links / Yasuhiro Koike and Satoshi Takahashi -- Chapter 17. Polarization Mode Dispersion / Misha Brodsky, Nicholas J. Frigo, and Moshe Tur -- Chapter 18. Electronic Signal Processing for Dispersion Compensation and Error Mitigation in Optical Transmission Networks / Abhijit Shanbhag, Qian Yu, and John Choma -- Chapter 19. Microelectromechanical Systems for Lightwave Communication / Ming C. Wu, Olav Solgaard, and Joseph E. Ford -- Chapter 20. Nonlinear Optics in Communications: From Crippling Impairment to Ultrafast Tools / Stojan Radic, David J. Moss, and Benjamin J. Eggleton -- Chapter 21. Fiber-Optic Quantum Information Technologies / Prem Kumar, Jun Chen, Paul L. Voss, Xiaoying Li, Kim Fook Lee, and Jay E. Sharping