Introduction – why we made this book

This chapter gives an introduction to the book. Starting with a brief history of communication and optical communication in particular the background is prepared for the rapidly developing techniques in polymer-optical fibres. We conclude the chapter with a list of the chapters to come and the motivation behind each of them.

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