Most of the material in this volume is new. The first three chapters deal with three important fiber-optic components--fiber-based gratings, couplers, and interferometers--that serve as the building blocks of lightwave technology. In view of the enormous impact of rare-earth-doped fibers, amplifiers and lasers made by using such fibers are covered in Chapters 4 and 5. The last three chapters describe important applications of nonlinear fiber optics and are devoted to pulse-compression techniques, fiber-optic communication systems, and soliton-based transmission schemes. This volume should serve well the need of the scientific community interested in such fields as ultrafast phenomena, optical amplifiers and lasers, and optical communications. It will also be useful to graduate students as well as scientists and engineers involved in lightwave technology. * Training resource for engineers involved with lightwave technology* Covers the importance of nonlinear effects in designing WDM lightwave systems* Up to date information for researchers
Author(s): Govind Agrawal
Edition: 1
Publisher: Academic Press
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 473
Applications of Nonlinear Fiber Optics......Page 2
OPTICS AND PHOTONICS......Page 3
Title Page
......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication
......Page 6
Preface......Page 13
Contents......Page 7
1.1 Basic Concepts......Page 15
1.2 Fabrication Techniques......Page 19
1.3 Grating Characteristics......Page 25
1.4 CW Nonlinear Effects......Page 36
1.5 Modulation Instability......Page 41
1.6 Nonlinear Pulse Propagation......Page 47
1.7 Related Periodic Structures......Page 58
2.1 Coupler Characteristics......Page 76
2.2 Nonlinear Effects......Page 85
2.3 Ultrashort Pulse Propagation......Page 97
2.4 Coupler-Paired Solitons......Page 103
2.5 Extensions and Applications......Page 107
3.1 Fabry Perot and Ring Resonators......Page 126
3.2 Sagnac Interferometers......Page 138
3.3 Mach Zehnder Interferometers......Page 152
3.4 Michelson Interferometers......Page 156
4.1 Basic Concepts......Page 165
4.2 Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers......Page 172
4.3 Dispersive and Nonlinear Effects......Page 180
4.4 Modulation Instability......Page 185
4.5 Optical Solitons......Page 191
4.6 Pulse Amplification......Page 198
5.1 Basic Concepts......Page 215
5.2 CW Fiber Lasers......Page 222
5.3 Short-Pulse Fiber Lasers......Page 232
5.4 Passive Mode Locking......Page 243
5.5 Role of Fiber Nonlinearity and Dispersion......Page 255
6.1 Physical Mechanism......Page 277
6.2 Grating-Fiber Compressors......Page 280
6.3 Soliton-Effect Compressors......Page 294
6.4 Fiber Bragg Gratings......Page 301
6.5 Chirped-Pulse Amplification......Page 306
6.6 Dispersion-Decreasing Fibers......Page 308
6.7 Other Compression Techniques......Page 313
7.1 System Basics......Page 333
7.2 Stimulated Brillouin Scattering......Page 340
7.3 Stimulated Raman Scattering......Page 344
7.4 Self-Phase Modulation......Page 349
7.5 Cross-Phase Modulation......Page 354
7.6 Four-Wave Mixing......Page 358
7.7 System Design......Page 363
8.1 Basic Concepts......Page 381
8.2 Loss-Managed Solitons......Page 390
8.3 Amplifier Noise......Page 400
8.4 Dispersion-Managed Solitons......Page 415
8.5 WDM Soliton Systems......Page 431
A Bit-Error Rate......Page 453
Acronyms......Page 456
Index......Page 459
