This book is ideal for R & D engineers and managers, optical systems implementers, university researchers and students, network operators, and the investment community. Volume (A) is intended for components and subsystems, including: semiconductor lasers, modulators, photodetectors, integrated photonic circuits, photonic crystals, a special fiber, polarization-mode dispersion, electronic signal processing, MEMS, nonlinear optical signal processing, and quantum information technology. Volume (B) is devoted to systems and networks, including: advanced modulation formats, coherent systems, time-multiplexed systems, performance monitoring, reconfigurable add-drop multiplexers, Ethernet technologies, broadband access and services, metro networks, long-distance transmission, switching optics, microwave photonics, computer interconnections, and simulation tools. Biographical Sketch Ivan Kaminow retired from Bell Labs in 1996 after a 42-year career. He performed seminal studies on electrooptic modulators and materials, Raman scattering in ferroelectrics, integrated optics, semiconductor lasers (DBR, ridge-waveguide InGaAsP and multi-frequency), birefringent optical fibers, and WDM networks. Later, he led research on WDM components (EDFAs, AWGs and fiber Fabry-Perot filter), and on WDM local and wide area network. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and recipient of the IEEE / OSA John Tyndall, Charles Townes OSA and IEEE / Leos Quantum Electronics Awards. He led the work on amplified WDM transmission systems and championed their deployment for increased network capacity. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a foreign member of Chinese Academy of Engineering. He is the recipient of the IEEE David Sarnoff Award, IEEE / OSA John Tyndall Award, OSA Ives Medal / Quinn Endowment, AT & T Science and Technology Medal, and IEEE Photonics Award. Alan Willner has worked at AT & T Bell Labs and Bellcore, and he is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He received the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellows Award from the White House, the Packard Foundation Fellowship, NSF National Young Investigator Award, Fulbright Foundation Senior Scholar, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Leos, and USC University-Wide Award for Excellence in Teaching. Lightwave Technology, Editor-in-Chief of Optics Letters, Co-Chair of OSA Science & Engineering Council, and General Co-Chair of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. For nearly three decades, the OFT series serves as a comprehensive resource that covers major advances in science and technology of fiber optic telecommunications. for the advancement of telecommunications world-wide. Leping Wei, CTO, China Telecom Lightwave system is the nervous system of the industrial world and continues to evolve as innovations are introduced with enormous economic impact. This book has grown to include not only updates the previous topic, but also much more discussion of networks and network services. Donald B. ROADM-based metro networks are widely used, optical monitoring becomes essential, new modulation formats that allow the efficient use of bandwidth, and deployed FTTH has 1 Gbit / s shared rates. Alferness, Chief Scientist, Bell Labs Research, Alcatel-Lucent * All the latest technology and techniques for developing future components and systems * Edited by two winners of the award / OSA very prestigious IEEE John Tyndal and President of the IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Society (7,000 members) * Written by experts in the field, it is the most authoritative and comprehensive reference on optical engineering market