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Fiber Bragg Gratings: Fundamentals and Applications in Telecommunications and Sensing (Artech House Optoelectronics Library)

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This book gives an excellent account of fiber Bragg gratings. The chapters on communications and sensing applications provided detailed insight into both areas. The communications arena has received much coverage recently, but until this book there has been very little discussion on sensing applications. A chapter addresses this issue and provides an excellent balance between fine points and overview. There is also a detailed discussion of photosensitivity-again something I found particularly useful, giving the reader a fair chance to follow this complicated field. I particularly liked the clear tables and charts. The remainder of the book was classified in a pretty standard form, with grating manufacture, properties and theory. Again, the authors should be commended on their clear presentation of useful information. As an example of the book's value, I generated the same graphs as presented in the theory section by using the equations therein, and have since generated many different grating structures and profiles-very nice indeed! Finally, it was a pleasant surprise to find a book with an up to date reference list. A suggestion for the publishers regarding subsequent editions, please space the information over more pages, by other book standards this should have been nearer 500 pages.

I knew nothing about fiber Bragg gratings before I picked up this book. Othonos and Kalli cover just about everything you would want to know about fiber Bragg gratings, from the physics of the fiber itself and how the gratings are created, to applications (including some of the more exotic ones). The material is presented in an understandable manner, with sufficient text descriptions - not just equations that you have to figure out yourself. If you're just beginning to learn about fiber Bragg gratings, I recommend this book highly.

A review of this book can really only be given in comparison to the only other book on the subject at this time, "Fiber Bragg Gratings," by Kashyap.

The book has a wonderful balance between the theory and applications of Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs), something that is lacking in Kashyap's book. The first 4 chapters (not including the introduction) give a nicely detailed theory for FBGs, including several sections in the "Properties of Fiber Bragg Gratings" (chapter 3) that are not covered in Kashyap's treatment. The book then contains two relatively large chapters on the applications of FBGs, the first on "Applications of Bragg Gratings in Communications" (chapter 6), and "Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors" (chapter 7). FBG sensors are completely omitted by Kashyap, so this book is far more useful to those working in the area (as the reviewer is). Although this book does not includes as much in the way of "Apodization", "Band-pass Filters", and "Chirped Fiber Bragg Gratings", as Kashyap does. Kashyap also has an extensive chapter on "Fiber Grating Lasers and Amplifiers", which is a small section in this book.

Overall I would say 4.5, but I had to choose 4 or 5, so I went with 5, as this book has been a great help to me. Conversely I gave Kashyap a 3.

So, if you can only buy one FBG book, I think this is it. But check the tables of content for both books and compare them, as Kashyap may be of more use to some.

My final though is that this book does have the feel of an edited collection of some 700+ references, were as Kashyap does appear to have written a book which feels more like a text book. But as a reference book I personally prefer the first.

Regards,

It is an excellent book in the optical fiber communication and sensing!

It is an excellent book in the optical fiber communication and sensing!

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