Recent Progress in Optical Fiber Research

Cover......Page 1
Recent Progress in Optical Fiber Research......Page 2
©......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 8
Part 1 Nonlinear Effects in Optical Fibers......Page 12
1 Multimode Nonlinear Fibre Optics: Theory and Applications......Page 14
2 Spontaneous Nonlinear Scattering Processes in Silica Optical Fibers......Page 36
3 Optical Solitons in a Nonlinear Fiber Medium with Higher-Order Effects......Page 60
4 Progress in Continuous-Wave Supercontinuum Generation......Page 76
5 Slow Light in Optical Fibers......Page 92
Part 2 Other Impairments in Optical Fibers......Page 112
6 Polarization Losses in Optical Fibers......Page 114
7 Optical Fiber Birefringence Effects – Sources, Utilization and Methods of Suppression......Page 138
8 Spun Fibres for Compensation of PMD: Theory and Characterization......Page 162
Part 3 Photonic Crystal Fibers......Page 186
9 Photonic Crystal Fibers with Optimized Dispersion for Telecommunication Systems......Page 188
10 Photonics Crystal Fiber Loop Mirrors
and Their Applications
......Page 204
11 Photonic Crystal Fiber for Medical Applications
......Page 240
12 Optic Fiber on the Basis of Photonic Crystal
......Page 258
13 Microstructured Fibre Taper with
Constant Outer Diameter
......Page 282
Part 4 Special Characteristics and Applications......Page 300
14 Long Period Gratings in
New Generation Optical Fibers
......Page 302
15 Optical Vortices in a Fiber:
Mode Division Multiplexing
and Multimode Self-Imaging
......Page 338
16 Use and Limitations of Single- and Multi-Mode
Optical Fibers for Exoplanet Detection
......Page 364
17 Time and Frequency Transfer in Optical Fibers
......Page 382
18 Applications of the Planar Fiber Optic Chip
......Page 398
19 Optical Fibers in Phase Space:
A Theoretical Framework
......Page 424
20 Effects of Radiation on Optical Fibers
......Page 442