Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Applications and Market O pportunities
Chapter 3 Light-Guiding Fundamentals and Fibe r Design
Chapter 4 Overview of Materials and Fabrication T echnologies
Chapter 5 Optical Fiber Coatings
Chapter 6 Single Mode Fibers for Communications
Chapter 7 Specialty Single Mode Fibers
Chapter 8 Rare-Earth Doped F ibers
Chapter 9 Polarization Maintaining Fibers
Chapter 10 Photosensitive Fibers
Chapter 11 Hollow Cor e Fibers
Chapter 12 Silica Nanowires and Subwavelength-Diam eter Fibers
Chapter 13 Chiral Fibers
Chapter 14 Mid-IR and Infrared Fibers
Chapter 15 Hermetic Carbon-C oated Fibers
Chapter 16 Metal-Coated Fibers
Chapter 17 Elliptical Core and D-Shape Fibers
Chapter 18 M ultimode, Large Core and Plastic Clad Fibers
Chapter 19 Ta pered Fibers and Specialty Fiber Micro-Components
Chapter 20 Liquid Core Fibers
Chapter 21 Polymer Optical Fibers