Fiber Optic Pulse Compression : Numerical Techniques and Applications with MATLAB / R. Vasantha Jayakantha Raja and A. Esther Lidiya.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raja, R. Vasantha Jayakantha, author.

Lidiya, A. Esther, author.

Series:

IOP series in advances in optics, photonics and optoelectronics.

IOP Series in Advances in Optics, Photonics and Optoelectronics Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiber optics--Mathematics.

Fiber optics.

Nonlinear optics--Mathematics.

Nonlinear optics.

MATLAB.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : IOP Publishing, [2022]

Summary:

This book describes the existing nonlinear pulse compression techniques to achieve femtosecond/attosecond pulses. It includes the topics such as importance of ultrashort pulses, photonic crystal fiber, pulse propagation in the fiber, numerical tools for the analysis of pulse propagation and compression, ultrashort pulse generation techniques, as well as an analysis of each compression scheme along with the quality analysis of the compressed pulse.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Acknowledgements

Author biographies

R Vasantha Jayakantha Raja

A Esther Lidiya

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 Ultrashort pulses

1.2 Characteristics of optical pulses

1.3 Generation of broadband spectra

1.4 Time-bandwidth product

1.5 Applications of ultrashort pulses

1.5.1 Frequency metrology

1.5.2 Optical coherence tomography

1.5.3 Wavelength-division multiplexing

1.5.4 Materials processing

1.5.5 Medicine

1.5.6 Fusion energy

1.5.7 High-harmonic generation

1.6 Ultrashort-pulse-generation techniques

1.6.1 Mode-locking techniques

1.7 Pulse compression

1.7.1 Linear pulse compression

1.7.2 Nonlinear pulse compression

1.8 Experiments with pulse-compression techniques

1.9 Organization of this book

References

Chapter 2 Photonic crystal fiber

2.1 Optical fiber

2.2 Guiding mechanism of optical fiber

2.3 Optical fiber construction

2.4 Modes in optical fiber

2.5 Normalized frequency (V number) of a core

2.6 Transmission window

2.7 Pulse compression in optical fiber

2.8 Photonic crystal fiber

2.8.1 Types of photonic crystal fiber

(i) Photonic bandgap fiber

(ii) Index-guiding PCF

2.9 Fabrication of photonic crystal fiber

2.10 Material selection for PCF modeling

2.11 Advantages

2.12 Pulse compression in PCF

Chapter 3 Theory and modeling of photonic crystal fiber

3.1 Numerical methods

3.2 The fully vectorial effective index method

3.3 Group velocity dispersion (GVD)

3.4 Mode parameters of PCF

3.5 Linear properties of photonic crystal fiber

3.6 Nonlinear properties of photonic crystal fiber

3.7 Finite-element method

3.7.1 Perfectly matched layer

3.7.2 Photonic crystal fiber parameters

Chapter 4 Soliton propagation

4.1 Soliton.

4.2 Nonlinear propagation in optical fiber

4.2.1 Polarization response

4.2.2 Nonlinear Schrödinger equation

4.2.3 Deriving the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

4.2.4 Higher-order nonlinear effects

4.3 Split-step Fourier method

4.4 Nonlinear propagation in optical fiber

4.4.1 Linear and nonlinear effects of fiber

(i) Dispersion

(ii) Self-phase modulation

(iii) Raman effect

4.4.2 Soliton generation

4.4.3 Modulational instability

4.5 Importance of optical solitons

4.6 Why solitons in photonic crystal fiber?

Chapter 5 Conventional compression schemes

5.1 Mechanism of pulse compression

5.2 Soliton compression

5.2.1 Second-order soliton compression

5.2.2 Third-order soliton compression

5.3 Quality analysis

5.3.1 Compression factor

5.3.2 Pedestal energy

5.3.3 Quality factor

5.4 Adiabatic compression

5.5 Pulse-parameter equation

5.6 Projection operator method

Chapter 6 Self-similar compression

6.1 Review of pulse compression

6.2 Pulse compression through self-similar analysis

6.2.1 Why use self-similar scale analysis in pulse compression?

6.2.2 Self-similar analysis

6.2.3 Designing PCF using self-similar analysis

6.2.4 Pedestal-free pulse compression

Chapter 7 Pulse compression in nonlinear optical loop mirrors

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Nonlinear optical loop mirrors

7.3 Numerical model of an NOLM

7.4 Applications of NOLMs

7.4.1 Amplitude equalizers

7.4.2 Saturable absorbers

7.5 Soliton propagation in NOLMs

7.6 Soliton pulse compression in NOLMs

7.6.1 Demonstration of the technique

7.6.2 Effects of initial soliton order

7.6.3 Effect of initial frequency chirp

7.6.4 Influence of higher-order effects

Chapter 8 Cascaded compression

8.1 Cascaded compression.

8.2 Effect of temperature on chloroform-infiltrated PCF

8.3 Theoretical modeling of cascaded PCF

8.4 Compression through a cascaded PCF

8.5 Quality analysis

Chapter 9 Supercontinuum compression

9.1 Supercontinuum generation

9.2 Physical mechanisms

9.2.1 Mechanism of supercontinuum generation

(i) Soliton fission

(ii) Modulational-instability-induced supercontinuum generation

9.3 Pulse compression through SCG

9.4 Tunable pulse compression

9.5 Theoretical model

9.5.1 Fiber design

9.5.2 Temperature-dependent pulse compression

Chapter

Determination of FWHM

Higher-order soliton compression

Adiabatic compression.

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ISBN:

0-7503-4392-3