Mário F. S. Ferreira is a Professor in the Physics Department of Aveiro University, Portugal. His research centre around multi-section semiconductor lasers, quantum well lasers, optical fiber amplifiers and lasers, optical sensors, soliton propagation, polarization and nonlinear effects in optical fibers. He is the former leader of the Optics and Optoelectronics Group of the I3N - Institute of Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication and has written more than 400 scientific journal and conference publications, including several books. He is a Fellow and a Visiting Lecturer with the Optical Society of America and the International Society for Optics and Photonics, and a Member of the IEEE.

• 1: The Nature of Light 2: Geometrical Optics 3: Optical Instruments and Aberrations 4: Radiometry and Photometry 5: Wave Theory 6: Electromagnetic Optics 7: Light Polarization 8: Interference 9: Interferometry 10: Coherence 11: Fraunhofer Diffraction 12: Fresnel Diffraction 13: Holography 14: Anisotropy 15: Optical Fibers 16: Dispersion in Optical Fibers 17: Laser Fundamentals 18: Semiconductor Lasers 19: Laser Beams and Laser Light 20: Nonlinear Optics 21: Nonlinear Effects in Optical Fibers 22: Fiber Amplifiers and Lasers 23: 22. All-Optical Signal Processing 24: Optical Solitons 25: Supercontinuum and UV Light Generation Appendix - Optics in Nature

Mário F. S. Ferreira is a Professor in the Physics Department of Aveiro University, Portugal. His research centre around multi-section semiconductor lasers, quantum well lasers, optical fiber amplifiers and lasers, optical sensors, soliton propagation, polarization and nonlinear effects in optical fibers. He is the former leader of the Optics and Optoelectronics Group of the I3N - Institute of Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication and has written more than 400 scientific journal and conference publications, including several books. He is a Fellow and a Visiting Lecturer with the Optical Society of America and the International Society for Optics and Photonics, and a Member of the IEEE.

• 1: The Nature of Light 2: Geometrical Optics 3: Optical Instruments and Aberrations 4: Radiometry and Photometry 5: Wave Theory 6: Electromagnetic Optics 7: Light Polarization 8: Interference 9: Interferometry 10: Coherence 11: Fraunhofer Diffraction 12: Fresnel Diffraction 13: Holography 14: Anisotropy 15: Optical Fibers 16: Dispersion in Optical Fibers 17: Laser Fundamentals 18: Semiconductor Lasers 19: Laser Beams and Laser Light 20: Nonlinear Optics 21: Nonlinear Effects in Optical Fibers 22: Fiber Amplifiers and Lasers 23: 22. All-Optical Signal Processing 24: Optical Solitons 25: Supercontinuum and UV Light Generation Appendix - Optics in Nature

Mário F. S. Ferreira is a Professor in the Physics Department of Aveiro University, Portugal. His research centre around multi-section semiconductor lasers, quantum well lasers, optical fiber amplifiers and lasers, optical sensors, soliton propagation, polarization and nonlinear effects in optical fibers. He is the former leader of the Optics and Optoelectronics Group of the I3N - Institute of Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication and has written more than 400 scientific journal and conference publications, including several books. He is a Fellow and a Visiting Lecturer with the Optical Society of America and the International Society for Optics and Photonics, and a Member of the IEEE.

• 1: The Nature of Light 2: Geometrical Optics 3: Optical Instruments and Aberrations 4: Radiometry and Photometry 5: Wave Theory 6: Electromagnetic Optics 7: Light Polarization 8: Interference 9: Interferometry 10: Coherence 11: Fraunhofer Diffraction 12: Fresnel Diffraction 13: Holography 14: Anisotropy 15: Optical Fibers 16: Dispersion in Optical Fibers 17: Laser Fundamentals 18: Semiconductor Lasers 19: Laser Beams and Laser Light 20: Nonlinear Optics 21: Nonlinear Effects in Optical Fibers 22: Fiber Amplifiers and Lasers 23: 22. All-Optical Signal Processing 24: Optical Solitons 25: Supercontinuum and UV Light Generation Appendix - Optics in Nature