title: Guided wave optics: physics, technology, and applications: introduction to the feature issue.
abstract: This Applied Optics feature issue is based on a set of papers that were presented at the biennial international conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics held in New Delhi, India, in December 2008.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi 110016, India.
authors.forename: Bishnu
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pal
authors.forename: Anurag
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.forename: Govind
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Agrawal
authors.forename: Claude
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fabre