The paper recommends the three new books edited by Dr.T.P.Lee:“Current Trends in Integrated Opto Electronics”

“Current Trends in Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers”

“Current Trends in Optical Amplifiers and their Applications”.Firstly

the paper briefly describes the forewords for the three books written dy Dr.Lee.Then

in the following sections

the paper briefly explains the current trends in high bit rate lasers and modulators

vertical cavity surface emitting lasers

laser array for wavelength division multiplex systems

Erbium doped and Praseodymium doped fiber amplifiers and pump lasers

chain operation of optical fiber amplifiers

semiconducter travelling wave optical amplifiers and their applications in photonic switching.