Advanced Manufacturing for Optical Fibers and Integrated Photonic Devices

Acknowledgments

I thank all of my family, colleagues, and friends who helped me complete this book.

In particular, I thank Mietek Slocinski for his, time, energy, fruitful discussion, and continuous support during the past few years.

I extend my thanks to Monica Havelock, Eng., and Mazin Altoumah, Arch. Eng., for their contribution of reviewing, proposing, and editing this book.

Thanks to my daughter, Abeer, and my son, Abaida, for their help in reviewing chapters and creating drawings and figures.

I express my great gratitude to my colleagues Prof. Devon Galway, Prof. Jim Catton, Prof. Robert Willbond, and Krysta Brennan, English editor, for their comments and feedback in reviewing some chapters.

I thank Lamyaa Shlah and J.P. Rouleau for their ...