Applications of Nonlinear Fiber Optics

Govind Agrawal9780120451449, 0120451441

As the field grew, Agrawal decided to split this text off from his Nonlinear Fiber Optics, which is more concerned with the discipline’s fundamentals. This edition is intended for senior undergraduates, graduate students, engineers and technicians in the telecommunications industry, and scientists working with fiber optics and optical communications. It covers the building blocks of light-wave technology – fiber-based gratings, couplers, and interferometers – as well as amplifiers and lasers made using rare-earth-doped fibers; pulse-compression techniques; fiber-optic communication systems; and soliton-based transmission schemes.

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Table of contents :
Contents……Page 6
Preface……Page 12
1.1 Basic Concepts……Page 14
1.2 Fabrication Techniques……Page 18
1.3 Grating Characteristics……Page 24
1.4 CW Nonlinear Effects……Page 35
1.5 Modulation Instability……Page 40
1.6 Nonlinear Pulse Propagation……Page 46
1.7 Related Periodic Structures……Page 57
2.1 Coupler Characteristics……Page 75
2.2 Nonlinear Effects……Page 84
2.3 Ultrashort Pulse Propagation……Page 96
2.4 Coupler-Paired Solitons……Page 102
2.5 Extensions and Applications……Page 106
3.1 Fabry Perot and Ring Resonators……Page 125
3.2 Sagnac Interferometers……Page 137
3.3 Mach Zehnder Interferometers……Page 151
3.4 Michelson Interferometers……Page 155
4.1 Basic Concepts……Page 164
4.2 Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers……Page 171
4.3 Dispersive and Nonlinear Effects……Page 179
4.4 Modulation Instability……Page 184
4.5 Optical Solitons……Page 190
4.6 Pulse Amplification……Page 197
5.1 Basic Concepts……Page 214
5.2 CW Fiber Lasers……Page 221
5.3 Short-Pulse Fiber Lasers……Page 231
5.4 Passive Mode Locking……Page 242
5.5 Role of Fiber Nonlinearity and Dispersion……Page 254
6.1 Physical Mechanism……Page 276
6.2 Grating-Fiber Compressors……Page 279
6.3 Soliton-Effect Compressors……Page 293
6.4 Fiber Bragg Gratings……Page 300
6.5 Chirped-Pulse Amplification……Page 305
6.6 Dispersion-Decreasing Fibers……Page 307
6.7 Other Compression Techniques……Page 312
7.1 System Basics……Page 332
7.2 Stimulated Brillouin Scattering……Page 339
7.3 Stimulated Raman Scattering……Page 343
7.4 Self-Phase Modulation……Page 348
7.5 Cross-Phase Modulation……Page 353
7.6 Four-Wave Mixing……Page 357
7.7 System Design……Page 362
8.1 Basic Concepts……Page 380
8.2 Loss-Managed Solitons……Page 389
8.3 Amplifier Noise……Page 399
8.4 Dispersion-Managed Solitons……Page 414
8.5 WDM Soliton Systems……Page 430
A Bit-Error Rate……Page 452
Acronyms……Page 455
Index……Page 458