Applications of nonlinear fiber optics / Govind P. Agrawal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Agrawal, Govind P., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nonlinear optics.

Fiber optics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (566 pages)

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier, [2020]

Summary:

Applications of Nonlinear Fiber Optics, Third Edition presents sound coverage of the fundamentals of lightwave technology, along with material on pulse compression techniques and rare-earth-doped fiber amplifiers and lasers.

Contents:

Front Cover

Applications of Nonlinear Fiber Optics

Copyright

Contents

Preface

1 Fiber gratings

1.1 Basic concepts

1.1.1 Bragg diffraction

1.1.2 Photosensitivity

1.2 Fabrication techniques

1.2.1 Single-beam internal technique

1.2.2 Dual-beam holographic technique

1.2.3 Phase-mask technique

1.2.4 Point-by-point fabrication technique

1.2.5 Technique based on ultrashort optical pulses

1.3 Grating characteristics

1.3.1 Coupled-mode equations

1.3.2 CW solution in the linear case

1.3.3 Photonic bandgap

1.3.4 Grating as an optical lter

1.3.5 Experimental veri cation

1.4 CW nonlinear effects

1.4.1 Nonlinear dispersion curves

1.4.2 Optical bistability

1.5 Modulation instability

1.5.1 Linear stability analysis

1.5.2 Effective NLS equation

1.5.3 Experimental results

1.6 Nonlinear pulse propagation

1.6.1 Bragg solitons

1.6.2 Relation to NLS solitons

1.6.3 Experiments on Bragg solitons

1.6.4 Nonlinear switching

1.6.5 Effects of birefringence

1.7 Related periodic structures

1.7.1 Long-period gratings

1.7.2 Nonuniform Bragg gratings

1.7.3 Transient and dynamic gratings

Problems

References

2 Directional couplers

2.1 Coupler characteristics

2.1.1 Coupled-mode equations

2.1.2 Low-power CW beams

2.1.3 Linear pulse switching

2.2 Nonlinear effects

2.2.1 Quasi-CW switching

2.2.2 Experimental results

2.2.3 Nonlinear supermodes

2.2.4 Modulation instability

2.3 Ultrashort pulse propagation

2.3.1 Nonlinear switching of optical pulses

2.3.2 Variational approach

2.3.3 Coupler-paired solitons

2.3.4 Higher-order effects

2.4 Other types of couplers

2.4.1 Asymmetric couplers

2.4.2 Active couplers

2.4.3 Grating-assisted couplers

2.4.4 Birefringent couplers

2.5 Multicore ber couplers.

2.5.1 Dual-core photonic crystal bers

2.5.2 Multicore bers

3 Fiber interferometers

3.1 Fabry-Perot and ring resonators

3.1.1 Transmission resonances

3.1.2 Optical bistability

3.1.3 Nonlinear dynamics and chaos

3.1.4 Modulation instability

3.1.5 Cavity solitons and their applications

3.2 Sagnac interferometers

3.2.1 Nonlinear transmission

3.2.2 Nonlinear switching

SPM-induced switching

XPM-induced switching

3.2.3 Applications

Ultrafast signal processing

All-optical logic operations

Parametric loop mirror

3.3 Mach-Zehnder interferometers

3.3.1 Nonlinear characteristics

3.3.2 Applications

3.4 Michelson interferometers

4 Fiber ampli ers

4.1 Basic concepts

4.1.1 Pumping and gain coef cient

4.1.2 Ampli er gain and bandwidth

4.1.3 Ampli er noise

4.2 Erbium-doped ber ampli ers

4.2.1 Gain spectrum

4.2.2 Ampli er gain

4.2.3 Ampli er noise

4.3 Dispersive and nonlinear effects

4.3.1 Maxwell-Bloch equations

4.3.2 Ginzburg-Landau equation

4.4 Modulation instability

4.4.1 Distributed ampli cation

4.4.2 Periodic lumped ampli cation

4.4.3 Noise ampli cation

4.5 Ampli er solitons

4.5.1 Properties of autosolitons

4.5.2 Maxwell-Bloch solitons

4.6 Pulse ampli cation

4.6.1 Anomalous-dispersion regime

4.6.2 Normal-dispersion regime

4.6.3 Higher-order effects

4.7 Fiber-optic Raman ampli ers

4.7.1 Pulse ampli cation through Raman gain

4.7.2 Self-similar evolution and similariton formation

5 Fiber lasers

5.1 Basic concepts

5.1.1 Pumping and optical gain

5.1.2 Cavity design

5.1.3 Laser threshold and output power

5.2 CW ber lasers

5.2.1 Nd-doped ber lasers

5.2.2 Yb-doped ber lasers

5.2.3 Erbium-doped ber lasers.

5.2.4 DFB ber lasers

5.2.5 Self-pulsing and chaos

5.3 Short-pulse ber lasers

5.3.1 Q-switched ber lasers

5.3.2 Physics of mode locking

5.3.3 Active mode locking

5.3.4 Harmonic mode locking

5.4 Passive mode locking

5.4.1 Saturable absorbers

5.4.2 Nonlinear ber-loop mirrors

5.4.3 Nonlinear polarization rotation

5.4.4 Hybrid mode locking

5.4.5 Other mode-locking techniques

5.5 Role of ber nonlinearity and dispersion

5.5.1 Saturable-absorber mode locking

5.5.2 Additive-pulse mode locking

5.5.3 Spectral sidebands and pulse width

5.5.4 Phase locking and soliton collisions

5.5.5 Polarization effects

6 Pulse compression

6.1 Physical mechanism

6.2 Grating- ber compressors

6.2.1 Grating pair

6.2.2 Optimum compressor design

6.2.3 Practical limitations

6.2.4 Experimental results

6.3 Soliton-effect compressors

6.3.1 Compressor optimization

6.3.2 Experimental results

6.3.3 Higher-order nonlinear effects

6.4 Fiber Bragg gratings

6.4.1 Gratings as a compact dispersive element

6.4.2 Grating-induced nonlinear chirp

6.4.3 Bragg-soliton compression

6.5 Chirped-pulse ampli cation

6.5.1 Chirped ber gratings

6.5.2 Photonic crystal bers

6.6 Dispersion-managed bers

6.6.1 Dispersion-decreasing bers

6.6.2 Comb-like dispersion pro les

6.7 Other compression techniques

6.7.1 Cross-phase modulation

6.7.2 Gain switching in semiconductor lasers

6.7.3 Optical ampli ers

6.7.4 Fiber-loop mirrors and other devices

7 Fiber-optic communications

7.1 System basics

7.1.1 Loss management

7.1.2 Dispersion management

7.2 Impact of ber nonlinearities

7.2.1 Stimulated Brillouin scattering

7.2.2 Stimulated Raman scattering

7.2.3 Self-phase modulation

7.2.4 Cross-phase modulation.

7.2.5 Four-wave mixing

7.3 Solitons in optical bers

7.3.1 Properties of optical solitons

7.3.2 Loss-managed solitons

7.3.3 Dispersion-managed solitons

7.3.4 Timing jitter

7.4 Pseudolinear lightwave systems

7.4.1 Intrachannel nonlinear effects

7.4.2 Intrachannel XPM

7.4.3 Intrachannel FWM

7.5 Coherent detection

7.5.1 Symbols, baud, and modulation formats

7.5.2 Heterodyne detection

7.5.3 Impact of nonlinear effects

7.6 Space-division multiplexing

7.6.1 Multicore bers

7.6.2 Multimode bers

8 Optical signal processing

8.1 Wavelength conversion

8.1.1 XPM-based wavelength converters

8.1.2 FWM-based wavelength converters

8.2 Ultrafast optical switching

8.2.1 XPM-based Sagnac-loop switches

8.2.2 Polarization-discriminating switches

8.2.3 FWM-based ultrafast switches

8.3 Applications of time-domain switching

8.3.1 Channel demultiplexing

8.3.2 Data-format conversion

8.3.3 All-optical sampling

8.4 Optical regenerators

8.4.1 SPM- and XPM-based regenerators

8.4.2 FWM-based regenerators

8.4.3 Phase-preserving regenerators

8.4.4 Multichannel optical regenerators

8.4.5 Optical 3R regenerators

9 Highly nonlinear bers

9.1 Microstructured bers

9.1.1 Design and fabrication

9.1.2 Nonlinear and dispersive properties

9.2 Wavelength shifting and tuning

9.2.1 Raman-induced frequency shifts

9.2.2 Four-wave mixing

9.3 Supercontinuum generation

9.3.1 Multichannel telecommunication sources

9.3.2 Nonlinear microscopy and spectroscopy

9.3.3 Optical coherence tomography

9.3.4 Optical frequency metrology

9.4 Kerr frequency combs

9.4.1 Fiber-based ring cavities

9.4.2 Properties of cavity solitons

9.5 Photonic bandgap bers

9.5.1 Properties of hollow-core PCFs.

9.5.2 Applications of air-core PCFs

9.5.3 Fluid- lled hollow-core PCFs

10 Quantum applications

10.1 Quantum theory of pulse propagation

10.1.1 Quantum nonlinear Schrödinger equation

10.1.2 Quantum theory of self-phase modulation

10.1.3 Generalized NLS equation

10.1.4 Quantum solitons

10.2 Squeezing of quantum noise

10.2.1 Physics behind quadrature squeezing

10.2.2 FWM-induced quadrature squeezing

10.2.3 SPM-induced quadrature squeezing

10.2.4 SPM-induced amplitude squeezing

10.2.5 Polarization squeezing

10.3 Quantum nondemolition schemes

10.3.1 QND measurements through soliton collisions

10.3.2 QND measurements through spectral ltering

10.4 Quantum sources

10.4.1 Single-photon sources

10.4.2 Photon-pair sources

10.4.3 Impact of spontaneous Raman scattering

10.4.4 Heralded single-photon sources

10.5 Quantum entanglement

10.5.1 Polarization entanglement

10.5.2 Time-bin entanglement

10.5.3 Continuous-variable entanglement

10.6 Applications of quantum states

10.6.1 Quantum cryptography

10.6.2 Quantum networks

A Acronyms

Index

Back Cover.

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ISBN:

0-12-817041-7

OCLC:

1183956003