Meet the editor

Guillermo Huerta Cuellar received a Ph.D. from Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, Mexico, in 2009. Currently, he is working as researcher at Centro Universitario de los Lagos, University of Guadalajara. He has been a visiting researcher at Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (IPICYT), Mexico; Faculty of Radiophysics of Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia; and St. Mary's University, San

Antonio, TX, USA. He has edited two books and published six book chapters and forty-two high-impact publications. He served as an academic editor for the journals *Complexity* and *Frontiers in Applied Mathematics*. He has also participated as a reviewer for scientific journals. His research interests include the study, characterization, and dynamical behavior of fiber lasers and electronics circuits.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

Multi-core Fiber Technology

Optical Inhouse Networks

Fiber Communication

*by Zhipei Li, Dong Guo and Ran Gao*

Multiplexing (SDM) Systems

*by Xing Li and Hongbao Xin*

*by Muhammad Irfan Anis and Hamdan Ali*

Functional Tapered Fiber Devices Using Polymeric Coatings *by Oscar González-Cortez, Rodolfo A. Carrillo-Betancourt, Juan Hernández-Cordero and Amado M. Velázquez-Benítez*

*by Ulrich H.P. Fischer, Matthias Haupt and Peter Kußmann*

**Preface XI**

Optical Fiber Technology **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 27**

**Chapter 3 41**

Optical Fiber in Communications **61**

**Chapter 4 63**

**Chapter 5 85**

Optical Fiber Integration and Photonic Devices **111**

**Chapter 6 113**

Coded Modulation and Impairment Compensation Techniques in Optical

OAM Modes in Optical Fibers for Next Generation Space Division

Optical Fiber Tweezers for the Assembly of Living Photonic Probes

*by Alaaeddine Rjeb, Habib Fathallah and Mohsen Machhout*
