1. Foreword

   • Huang Hung-chia
   • Allan W. Snyder

   EditorialNotes Pages: 171 - 171

2. Opening address

   • Allan W. Snyder

   Report Pages: 173 - 173

3. Welcoming address by the Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE)

   • Huang Hung-Chia

   Report Pages: 175 - 176

4. Optical fiber research present and future

   • Charles K. Kao

   Special-Issue Papers Pages: 177 - 189

5. Some thoughts on the education of optical waveguide engineers

   • W. A. Gambling

   Special-Issue Papers Pages: 191 - 195

6. Topics on educational approach to optical waveguide theory

   • Gerhard K. Grau

   Special-Issue Papers Pages: 197 - 202

7. Throughput and coupling in optical fibers

   • H. Hodara
   • C. Slemon

   Special-Issue Papers Pages: 203 - 221

8. Leaky-wave modes and their role in the numerical evaluation of the field excited by a line source in a non-symmetric, inhomogeneously layered, slab waveguide

   • H. Blok
   • J. M. van Splunter
   • H. G. Janssen

   Special-Issue Papers Pages: 223 - 236

9. Waves with random coupling and random propagation constants

   • Harrison E. Rowe

   Special-Issue Papers Pages: 237 - 255

10. Polarization-maintaining fibers

    • I. P. Kaminow

    Special-Issue Papers Pages: 257 - 270

11. New physical effects on periodically grooved optical planar waveguides

    • A. A. Oliner
    • S. T. Peng

    Special-Issue Papers Pages: 271 - 274

12. Integrated parametric oscillators with semiconductor laser pumps

    • D. B. Ostrowsky

    Special-Issue Papers Pages: 275 - 276

13. Dispersion of tubular modes

    • J. Arnaud

    Special-Issue Papers Pages: 277 - 279

14. Further developments in modal noise statistics as applied to fibre transmission systems

    • R. E. Epworth
    • P. R. Couch
    • J. M. T. Rowe

    Special-Issue Papers Pages: 281 - 287

15. Noise analysis of refractive index profile measurements of an optical fibre and preform by deflection function techniques

    • P. L. Chu
    • T. Whitbread
    • P. Y. P. Chen

    Special-Issue Papers Pages: 289 - 300

16. Phase-locked InGaAsP laser array with diffraction coupling

    • T. R. Chen
    • K. L. Yu
    • A. Yariv

    Special-Issue Papers Pages: 301 - 303

17. Mode conversion analysis in a single-mode planar taper optical waveguide

    • M. Bélanger
    • G. L. Yip

    Special-Issue Papers Pages: 305 - 314

18. Curvature-induced oscillations of the loss of leaky modes in optical fibers: a ray analysis

    • C. Vassallo

    Special-Issue Papers Pages: 315 - 324

19. The application of near field scanning to single mode fibre profiling

    • D. H. Irving

    Special-Issue Papers Pages: 325 - 332

20. Nonlinear wave propagation in optical fibres

    • A. D. Boardman
    • G. S. Cooper

    Special-Issue Papers Pages: 333 - 343

21. TE modes of a layered nonlinear optical waveguide

    • A. D. Boardman
    • P. Egan
    • A. Shivarova

    Special-Issue Papers Pages: 345 - 353

22. Remarks on the intrinsic properties of guided-wave light

    • Fang Jun-xin

    Special-Issue Papers Pages: 355 - 357

23. Beam propagation in the paraxial approximation

    • R. Castillo
    • A. K. Ghatak
    • H. Hora

    Special-Issue Papers Pages: 359 - 363

24. Panel session on single-polarization single-mode (SPSM) optical fibers — a sketch report

    • Allan W. Snyder

    Panel Session Reports Pages: 365 - 367

25. Panel session on education in optical waveguide sciences

    • Huang Hung-chia

    Panel Session Reports Pages: 369 - 380