A native of Los Angeles, California, JOHN A. BUCK, received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1982. He then joined the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is now an Associate Professor. He has been actively involved in research in the fields of fiber optics and nonlinear optics for over a dozen years, and has developed several courses in these areas. This book is a product of one of these courses.