Preface xi
How to Read this Handbook xiii
Introduction xv
A
Acousto-optical Devices 1 (15)
Harald Herrmann
Add/Drop Filter 16 (1)
Yasuo Kokubun
Arrayed Waveguide Grating 16 (8)
Hiroshi Takahashi
Athermal Components 24 (9)
Yasuo Kokubun
Attenuator 33 (2)
Yasuo Kokubun
D
Directional Coupler 35 (1)
Yasuo Kokubun
Distributed Bragg Reflector Laser 36 (5)
Shigehisa Arai
Distributed Feedback Laser 41 (12)
Shigeyuki Akiba
E
Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier 53 (10)
Masataka Nakazawa
E
Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) 63 (11)
Kazaro Kikuchi
Four Wave Mixing 74 (2)
Kazuo Kuroda
Frequency Chirping 76 (9)
Fumio Koyama
I
Integrated Twin-Guide Laser 85 (19)
Katsumi Kishino
Yasuharu Suematsu
Isolator and Circulator 104 (17)
Tetsuya Mizumoto
L
Lambda Plate 121 (1)
Yasuo Kokubun
Light 121 (1)
Kenichi Iga
Lithium Niobate Modulator 122 (7)
Masayuki Izutsu
M
Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems 129 (12)
Hiroyuki Fujita
Microlens 141 (2)
Kenichi Iga
Micro-Ring Resonator Circuit 143 (3)
Yasuo Kokubun
Mode Scrambler 146 (1)
Yasuo Kokubun
Modulation Limit of Semiconductor Lasers 147 (4)
Fumio Koyama
Multi-Mode Interference Devices 151 (14)
Katsuyuki Utaka
N
Nanophotonics 165 (22)
Satoshi Kawata
Yasushi Inouye
Hong-Bo Sun
O
Optical Coupling in Waveguides 187 (5)
Kazuhito Furuya
Optical Coupling of Laser and Fiber 192 (1)
Kenichi Iga
Yasuo Kokubun
Optical Disk Pickup 193 (18)
Kenya Goto
Optical Fiber 211 (5)
Yasuo Kokubun
Optical Filter Synthesis 216 (22)
Christi K. Madsen
Optical Interconnect 238 (1)
Kenichi Iga
Optical Parallel Processors 238 (1)
Kenichi Iga
Optical Parametric Amplifier 239 (7)
Kvo Inoue
Optical Resonator 246 (1)
Kenichi Iga
Optical Switch 246 (13)
Renshi Sawada
Optical Tap 259 (1)
Yasuo Kokubun
Optoelectronic Integrated Circuit 259 (12)
Osamu Wada
P
Periodic Structures 271 (11)
Toshiaki Suhara
Photonic Crystal 282 (13)
Toshihiko Baba
Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) 295 (10)
Tohru Maruno
Polarization 305 (1)
Kenichi Iga
Polarization Control 306 (13)
Antao Chen
Fred Heismann
Q
Quantum Well 319 (4)
Masahiro Asada
R
Raman Amplifier 323 (10)
Shu Namiki
RF Spectrum Analyzer 333 (26)
Chen S. Tsai
S
Second Harmonic Generation (Waveguide) 359 (13)
Kazuhisa Yamamoto
Semiconductor Optical Amplifier 372 (10)
Ken Morito
Single Photon Source 382 (1)
Yoshihisa Yamamoto
Stacked Planar Optics 383 (2)
Kenichi Iga
T
Thermo-Optic Devices 385 (18)
Yoshinori Hibino
3R (Retiming, Reshaping, Regeneration) 403 (6)
Kazuro Kikuchi
Transmitter/Receiver 409 (1)
Kohroh Kobayashi
Traveling-Wave Electroabsorption 410 (17)
Robert Lewen
Stefan Irmscher
Urban Eriksson
Urban Westergren
Lars Thylen
Tunable Semiconductor Lasers 427 (16)
Larry A. Coldren
G. A. Fish
Y. Akulova
J. S. Barton
L. Johansson
C. W. Coldren
V
Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser 443 (14)
Kenichi Iga
W
Waveguide Bends 457 (3)
Kazuhito Furuya
Waveguide Modeling 460 (10)
Masanori Koshiba
Wavelength Conversion 470 (13)
Hiroyuki Uenohara
Wavelength Multiplexer/Demultiplexer 483 (10)
(MUX/DEMUX in WDM)
Hiroshi Takahashi
Y
Y-Branch 493 (2)
Yasuo Kokubun
Contributors/Initial of Chapters 495 (4)
Index 499