This volume contains the proceedings of a two-week NATO A.S.I. on Integrated Optics: Physics and Applications, held from August 17 to August 30, 1981 in Erice, Italy. This is the 8th annual Course of the "International School of Quantum Electronics" presented under the auspices of the "E. Majorana" Centre for Scientific Culture. The subject was chosen in order to satisfy the demand for a course on integrated optics which is relevant to the expanding use of fiber optics for communication and signal processing. Integrated Optics, encompassing all of the optical waveguide circuits which are the optical analog of integrated circuits, is finding its way into a variety of applications involving communi cations, high speed signal-processing, and sensors of many kinds. However, because the technology is still changing very rapidly, the development of these exciting applications relies heavily upon the physics of the integrated optical circuits themselves and the pro cessing techniques used to fabricate them. This NATO A.S.I. provided not only a thorough tutorial treatment of the field, but also through panel discussions and additional lectures treated topics at the forefront of present work. Therefore the character of the Course was a blend of current research and tutorial reviews. "The Physics and Applications of Integrated Optics" could hardly be a more appropriate title to be chosen for this volume. Many of the worlds' acknowledged leaders in the field have been brought together to review and speculate on the accomplishments of integrated optics.

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Lectures and Seminars.- Integrated Optics Devices for Optical Communications.- Planar Optical Waveguide and Coupler Analysis.- Fabrication of Surface Optical Waveguides.- Single Mode Optical Fiber Technology: I. Propagation Properties and Material Dispersion in Single-Mode Fibers.- Single Mode Optical Fiber Technology: II. Silica-Based Single-Mode Fiber Technology, Loss and Polarization Properties.- Single Mode Optical Fiber Technology: III. Double-Crucible Drawing Technology and Compound Glass Fibers.- Integrated Optical Receivers for Telecommunications: A Critical Discussion.- Principles and Performance of Access Couplers for Multimode Fibers and Devices for Wavelength Division Multiplexing.- Planar Tees and Star Couplers.- Planar Tees and Couplers for Multimode Devices.- Integrated Optics Switches and Modulators.- Planar Electrooptic and Acoustooptic Bragg-Deflectors.- Ultimate Limits in Integrated Optics.- Optical Bistability and the Optical Transistor Using Semiconductors.- Integrated Optical Signal Processors: Design and Implementation Criteria.- Geodesic Optics: Overview and Perspectives.- Integrated Optical Spectrum Analysers Using Geodesic Lenses on Lithium Niobate.- Development of Integrated Optical Circuits in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, The University of Glasgow.- Integrated Optics in China.- Coupling Techniques: Prism-, Grating- and Endfire-coupling.- The Finite Element Method in the Analysis of Optical Waveguides.- A Numerical Analysis of Grating Structures.- Thin Film Control and Microfabrication Technique.- Light Intensity Noise in Gain- and Index Guide Semiconductor Heterojunction Lasers.- Contributed Papers.- Optical Single Sideband Homodyne Phase Detection.- High-Frequency Oscillators and Bistable Multivibrators Using Integrated Interferometers.- Assessment of Ion Ranges of Various Energies in LiNb03 and LiTaO3 by Waveguide Measurements.- All-Fiber Single-Mode Devices for Passive Functions.- Heterodyne Systems for Optical Fibre Communications and a Proposed Electro-optic Frequency Shifter.- An Optical Serrodyne Frequency Translator.- Behaviour of Photopolymer Materials.- The Dynamical Behaviour of a Single-Mode Optical Fiber Sensor.- Subject Inde.