comprehensive, well organized, complete, a must have
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The third edition continue the uniqueness of the first and second edition of the book by retaining most of the original material with more recent theoretical and experimental results that have been published by researchers all over the world. The addition of the new chapter of 'polarization effect' is very timely, as polarization issues have become increasingly more important in today's high-speed optical communication systems for which the phenomenon of polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) has become a limiting factor. Other chapters including: pulse propagation in fibers, group-velocity dispersion (GVD), self-phase modulation (SPM), optical soliton, cross-phase modulation (XPM), stimulated Raman scattering (SRS), stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) and parametric processes. The 'optical pulse compression compression' chapter has been excluded though. The inclusion of problems at the end of every chapter is a very good effort by the author to help instructors and students enrolling related graduate courses in universities. One won't find any materials about the application of every nonlinear effect in this edition as in earlier editions though as they have been compiled together in the new complimentary book 'application of nonlinear fiber optics'. This is definitely a unique source of reference with comprehensive, well organized and complete coverage on the subject. A must have for people working with nonlinear fiber optics including engineers, researchers as well as graduate students.
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