Integrated optics and Optical computing are now a mature technology offering many types of devices and manufacturing techniques. Recent breakthroughs in the field of silicon photonics showed low-loss insulators, passive wave guide devices, high speed optical switches, detectors, silicon lasers, and silicon amplifiers, optical amplifiers etc. These devices have provided the possibility to constr...

Modern optical fibre networks are evolving from static point-to-point connections towards meshed networks with some degree of optical transparency and capability for reconfiguration. At the same time installation and operation shall be simplified, while the availability shall be kept high. In the network design this task can be accomplished by allocation of transmission margins and by control o...

Creation of reusable learning content in the process of work is a challenging but promising trend in e-learning and knowledge management. Whereas well established authoring methodologies like instructional system design seem to be too complicated to be used by employees during their work, new authoring methods using rapid authoring tools do not provide content quality that is enough to support ...