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Acknowledgments

I am grateful to many individuals who have either directly contributed
to the book or so generously provided material for it. I thank the members
of the European ACTS Program, PHOTOS, whose efforts have greatly
contributed to the growing knowledge in this area. In particular, I am
indebted to Marc Douay, Bertrand Poumellec, Rene Salathe, Pierre Sanso-
netti, Isabelle Riant, Fatima Bhakti, Hans Limberger, and Christian
Bungarzaneau, for providing several original exemplary figures and simu-
lations. I thank Ken Hill, Jacques Albert, Stanislav Chernikov, Turan
Erdogan, Phillip Russell, Feodor Timofeev, Malin Permanante, Raoul
Stubbe, Vince Handerek, Sotiris Kanellopoulos, Tom Strasser, Peter Krug,
Takashi Mizuochi, Nadeem Rizvi, Doug Williams, Alistair Poustie, Steve
Kershaw, and Mike Brierley for their assistance with figures, Arjun Kas-
hyap for the arrangement on the front cover, and others who have also
provided data for inclusion in the book.
Melanie Holmes's vast contribution on radiation mode coupling is
humbly acknowledged. I especially thank her for the many philosophical
discussions, fun arguments and Mars bars exchanged on the subject!
Jenny Massicott has generously contributed and provided significant help
with the section on gain controlled amplifiers. 'Thanks' must go to Richard
Wyatt for reading the manuscript so quickly and Marcello Segatto for his
many constructive comments.
A special thank you to Domenico Giannone for his painstaking and
careful reading of parts of the manuscript, and to Hans Georg Frohlich
and Simon Wolting for undertaking fun experiments during their summer
student-ships. Monica de Lacerda-Rocha provided numerous measure-
ments on chirped gratings. Walter Margulis and Isabel Cristina Carvalho
are acknowledged for the amusing times in the lab in Rio, proving that
writing in-fiber gratings on a piece of Amazonian hardwood "optical bench"
is easy, even late at night! Bernhard Lesche and Isabel Cristina Carvalho

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