OPTICAL FIBERS

An addition to the “Wiley Survival Guides in Engineering and Science” series, the book Fiber Optic Essentials provides an overview of the technology. It discusses the development of low-loss optical fibers, which led to the application of lasers in communications systems supported by a global network of the fibers under seas and over land. The 255-page resource provides a basic discussion on light waves and addresses nonlinear fiber optics, fiber Bragg gratings and fiber-based sensors as well as Raman fiber amplifiers, fiber optic components and pulse dispersion in single- and multimode optical fibers. K. Thyagarajan and Ajoy Ghatak; John Wiley & Sons Inc., Hoboken, N.J., 2007; $79.95.