Handbook of Radio and Optical Networks Convergence

This handbook provides comprehensive knowledge on device and system technologies for seamlessly integrated networks of various types of transmission media such as optical fibers and millimeter and THz waves to offer super high-speed data link service everywhere. The seamless integration of the knowledge of radio and optical technologies is needed to construct wired and wireless seamless networks. High-frequency bands such as millimeter-wave and THz-wave bands where super wideband spectra are available can offer high-speed data transmission and high-resolution sensing. However, the expected coverage is limited due to large wave propagation loss. Thus, convergence of radio and optical links is indispensable to construct worldwide networks. The radio and optical technologies share the same physics and are closely related to each other but have been developed independently. Therefore, there is a big gap between these two fields. Bridging the two fields, this handbook is also intended as a common platform to design integrated networks consisting of wireless and wired links.

Full coverage of wireless and wired convergence fields ranging from basics of device and transmission media to applications allows the reader to efficiently access all the important references in this single handbook. Further, it also showcases state-of-the-art technology and cases of its use.

Tetsuya Kawanishi is a professor at Waseda University. His work currently focuses on high-speed optical modulators and radio-frequency (RF) photonics. He received his Bachelor and Master of Engineering and Ph.D. degrees in electronics from Kyoto University in 1992, 1994, and 1997, respectively. He was at the Production Engineering Laboratory of Panasonic in 1994–1995; at the Venture Business Laboratory in Kyoto University, where he was engaged in research on electromagnetic scattering and near-field optics, in 1997-1998; and joined the Communications Research Laboratory, Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (currently, the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) in 1998. He was also a visiting scholar at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at San Diego in 2004. He has served in his current position since April 2015. He is the chairman of the Task Group on Fixed Wireless Systems and Ground-Based Radar Systems (TG-FWS/GBRS) in the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity Wireless Group (AWG). He is a fellow of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and a fellow of IEICE (The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers).