**Scattering, Dispersion, Polarisation, Interference, Fuse Phenomena and Optical Manipulation**

and commercial applications including telecommunications, which requires near-infrared

The third section comprises three chapters related to PON technology. Fiber-optic access networks are necessary for a real broadband delivery, allowing the fiber to arrive closer to the final customer, eventually up to the premises equipment. Such infrastructures, depend‐ ing on the depth of reach of the fiber, are usually referred to as FTTX (Fiber To The X), where X stands for H (Home), B (Building), C (Curb) or Cab (Cabinet). In this section, a new development of passive optical network (PON) and plastic optical fibers technologies are presented. Chapter 11 provides a general description of the self-coherent reflective PON ar‐ chitecture as a possible technological approach to the NG-PON2 (Next Generation PON 2) requirements in terms of performance, cost, wavelength control and data transmission capa‐ bility, among others. Chapter 12 reports the state-of-the art, description and experimental validation of different POF-based key devices that provide an easy-reconfigurable perform‐ ance for wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) applications. The last chapter demon‐ strates a POF based solutions in WDM network and some effects due to the placement of

**Moh Yasin**

Indonesia

Malaysia

Malaysia

**Hamzah Arof**

**Sulaiman Wadi Harun**

Faculty of Science and Technology, Airlangga Univesity,

Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Malaya,

Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Malaya,

(NIR) detection in the 1300-1550 nm wavelength range.

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color filters as a demultiplexer for the In-Car Entertainment System.
