Meet the editors

Patrick Steglich is a research associate at the IHP—Leibniz-Institut für innovative Mikroelektronik, Germany, and lecturer for photonics and optical technologies at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau, Germany. He has held a Master's degree in Photonics from the Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau since 2013. In 2017, he received his PhD in Industrial Engineering from the Università degli Studi di Roma

"Tor Vergata" for his work in the field of integrated photonics for communication and sensing. His research is focused on emerging photonic devices and waveguide concepts for telecommunication and sensing applications.

Fabio De Matteis graduated in Physics at the University of Rome-LaSapienza in 1987 and received a PhD in Physics from the University of Antwerp, Belgium, in 1993. He has been at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" since 1995. His scientific interest has been devoted to: the synthesis and characterization of materials for photonics by means of spectroscopic techniques (absorption and luminescence, static and

time resolved by ultrafast techniques, Raman); synthesis and nonlinear optical characterization of materials for optoelectronics; polar ordering of nonlinear chromophores induced by corona and electrode poling; nanostructuring (mono- and bidimensional gratings) in insulating materials by photolithographic techniques; biopolymeric scaffolds by two-photon polymerization for tissue engineering; and impedance spectroscopy of solid electrolyte materials showing ionic conduction.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

*by Monika Bahl*

*by Yoshito Shuto*

**Section 4**

Introductory Chapter: Fiber Optics *by Patrick Steglich and Fabio De Matteis*

*by Xiaoshuai Liu and Yao Zhang*

Structured Light Fields in Optical Fibers

Optical Fiber Probe-Based Manipulation of Cells

**Preface III**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Optical Fibers in Biophotnics **9**

**Chapter 2 11**

Modern Aspects on Optical Fibers **25**

**Chapter 3 27**

**Chapter 4 41**

Optical Fiber Communication **67**

**Chapter 5 69**

Cavity Generation Modeling of Fiber Fuse in Single-Mode Optical Fibers

Delta-Sigma Digitization and Optical Coherent Transmission of

*by Jing Wang, Zhensheng Jia, Luis Alberto Campos and Curtis Knittle*

DOCSIS 3.1 Signals in Hybrid Fiber Coax Networks
