Palle Jeppesen is professor emeritus at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and a researcher with many years’ experiences in optical fiber communications, lasers, fibers, systems, and ultra-high-speed optical communications. He has been a member of the Danish Technical Research Council, the Scientific Council for the Danish National Encyclopedia, and on the boards of a number of large corporate entities. His current research interests are optical signal processing, optical multi-level modulation formats, and terabit optical communication. Bjarne Tromborg was formerly a research and teaching professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) best known for his work in particle physics and photonics. He has been a member of the Danish Natural Science Research Council and many technical program committees. He has published widely on the topics of optoelectronics, semiconductor lasers, and optical communications
"""...the book contains a short discussion on the basic relations for the wave propagation in optical fibers but a detailed discussion of the specific propagating modes is outside the scope of this book… An important focus of the book is related to all-optical signal processing... This book covers a vast amount of material and it impresses by a very thorough analysis with extensive appendices... The book is thus very well suited for an advanced undergraduate student with respect to the first part of the book and for a graduate student with respect to the second part of the book. It is also very helpful that each chapter is concluded with a short summary at its end... represents a valuable extension to the existing literature providing the reader with a very deep knowledge for better understanding advanced optical communication systems."" --Klaus Petermann, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, IEEE Photonics Society News"