Professor Debasish Datta served in the faculty of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur for over 37 years till 2017. He visited several overseas universities including Stanford University, University of California at Davis, Chonbuk National University, South Korea, and University of Malaya. He served as a Guest Editor for IEEE JSAC for the special Issue on WDM-based Network Architectures and served on the Editorial Boards of IEEE Communication Surveys and Tutorials and Elsevier Journal of Optical Switching and Networking. Currently, he is engaged in mentoring researchers in the area of optical networks as a visiting professor at various Indian universities.
...the book's coverage extends from history to technology basics to systems and applications, with copious amounts of detail and considerable mathematical depth. * Bogdan Hoanca, Optics & Photonics News * Well written with a comprehensive coverage of all major aspects of optical networking today. * Keith Blow, Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies * Thorough, authoritative, and very useful for graduate students, researchers, and industry practitioners. * Rudra Dutta, North Carolina State University * Current and forward looking, with a systematic overview of the evolution of optical networks. * Marija Furdek, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden *