Concept of Modes in Optical Waveguides. Modes in Optical Fibres. Dispersion in Optical Fibres. Evolution of Specialty Optical Fibres. Materials and Fabrication Technology of Rare-Earth-Doped Optical Fibres. Optical Fibre Amplifiers. Erbium-Doped Fibre Lasers. Semiconductor Light Sources and Detectors. Silicon-Based Detectors and Sources for Optoelectronic Devices. Advances in Packet Optical Transport in Optical Networking and Broadband Transmission. Guided-Wave Fourier Optics. Fibre Bragg Gratings: Basic Theory. Photosensitivity, In-Fibre Grating Writing Techniques and Applications. Optical Solitons in Nonlinear Fibre Systems: Recent Development. Photonic Crystal Fibre: Basic Principles of Light Guidance, Fabrication Process and Applications. Nonlinear Optics and Physics of Supercontinuum Generation in Optical Fibre. Guided Wave Plasmonics. Stratified Media for Novel Optics, Perfect Transmission and Perfect Coherent Absorption. Nonlinear Optical Frequency Conversion Using Quasi-Phase Matching. Biophotonics: An Introduction. Index.