The BT edited book is...comprehensive and would be my overall choice, emphasizing as it does the underpinning physical principles and taking a forward-looking view of the field...a team at BT whose expertise in the field cannot be challenged. - Optics and Laser Technology; Truly a book to widen horizons - Optical World

• Nerves of glass. Opportunities for advanced optical technology in access networks. Future core networks using novel but simple optical technology. Optical time division multiplexing for future high-capacity network applications. Impact of new optical technology on spectrally sliced access and data networks. Optical wireless local area networks - enabling technologies. Quantum cryptography and secure optical communications. Microwave and millimetre-wave radio fibre. Novel components for optical switching. Nonlinear loop mirror devices and applications. Analysis of an optically amplified two-section link specification incorporating an erbium-doped fibre amplifier. Towards a practical 1.3um optical fibre amplifier. Visible fibre lasers. Wavelength and time-multiplexing devices on planar silica motherboards. Light-sensitive optical fibres and planar waveguides. New applications of optics from modern computer design methods. Index.