**Meet the editor**

Narottam Das received BSc and MSc degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology, and Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh, respectively. He received PhD degree in systems and information engineering from Yamagata University, Japan in 2000. Currently he is an Associate Professor in the Depart-

ment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Curtin University Sarawak, Malaysia and an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Curtin University, Perth, Australia. He is also an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. Earlier, he worked at Edith Cowan University, Perth and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; NEC Yamagata Ltd., Yamagata, Japan and Bangladesh Export Import Company, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is the author/coauthor of 6 book chapters, more than 100 peer-reviewed journal and international conference papers, and more than 20 NEC Japan's technical reports at NEC Japan. He is the editor of the books *Optical Communication Systems* and *Optical Communication*. His research interests include pulse propagation, wave-mixing, high-speed communication devices (semiconductor optical amplifiers), plasmonics and plasmonics-based communication devices (metal–semiconductor– metal photodetectors), high efficiency solar cells (renewable energy). Dr Das is a Senior Member of the IEEE Photonics Society, USA; member of the Institute of Engineers, Australia; and a Life Fellow of the Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh.
