Handbook of Optoelectronics

John P. Dakin, PhD, is Professor (Emeritus) at the Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton. He received the B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Southampton University, U.K., and remained there as a Research Fellow until 1973 where he supervised research and development of optical fiber sensors and other optical measurement instruments. He then spent two years in Germany at AEG Telefunken, 12 years at Plessey, UK, and two years with York Limited/York Biodynamics before returning to Southampton University. He has authored over 150 technical and scientific papers, and over 120 patent applications. He was previously a Visiting Professor at Strathclyde University, UK. Dr. Dakin has won a number of awards, including "Inventor of the Year" for Plessey Electronic Systems Limited, the Electronics Divisional Board Premium of 1EE. Earlier, he won open scholarships to both Southampton and Manchester Universities. He has also been responsible for a number of key electro-optic developments. These include the sphere lens optical fiber connector, the first WDM optical shaft encoder, the Raman optical fiber distributed temperature sensor, the first realization of a fiber-optic passive hydrophone array sensor and the Sagnac location method described here, plus a number of novel optical gas sensing methods. Robert G. W. Brown, PhD, is chief executive officer of the American Institute of Physics. He received his PhD in engineering from the University of Surrey and his BS in physics from Royal Holloway College at the University of London. He was previously an applied physicist at Rockwell Collins, where he carried out research in photonic ultra-fast computing, optical detectors, and optical materials. Previously, he was an advisor to the UK government, and international and editorial director of the Institute of Physics. He is an elected member of the European Academy of the Sciences and Arts (Academia Eu

Series preface



Introduction to the Second Edition



Introduction to the First Edition



Editors



Contributors



Part I ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES FOR COMMUNICATIONS



1 Optical transmission



Michel Joindot and Michel Digonnet



2 Optical network architectures



Ton Koonen



3 Optical switching and multiplexed architectures



Dominique Chiaroni



Part II ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMAGING AND DISPLAYS



4 Camera technology



Kenkichi Tanioka, Takao Ando, and Masayuki Sugawara



5 Vacuum tube and plasma displays



Makoto Maeda, Tsutae Shinoda, and Heiju Uchiike



6 Liquid crystal displays



J. Cliff Jones



7 Technology and applications of spatial light modulators



Uzi Efron



8 Organic electroluminescent displays



Euan Smith



9 Three-dimensional display systems



Nick Holliman



10 Optical scanning and printing



Ron Gibbs



Part III ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES FOR SENSING, DATA PROCESSING, ENERGY CONVERSION, AND ACTUATION



11 Optical fiber sensors



John P. Dakin, Kazuo Hotate, Robert A. Lieberman, and Michael A. Marcus



12 Remote optical sensing by laser



J. Michael Vaughan Worcestershire



13 Optical information storage and recovery



Susanna Orlic



14 Optical information processing



John N. Lee



15 Spectroscopic analysis



Günter Gauglitz and John P. Dakin



16 Optical to electrical energy conversion: Solar cells



Tom Markvart and Fernando Araujo de Castro



17 Optical nano- and microactuation



George K. Knopf



Part IV OPTOELECTRONIC SYSTEMS



18 The art of practical optoelectronic systems



Anthony E.