By Ruediger Paschotta
ISBN-10: 0819480908
ISBN-13: 9780819480903
Fiber optics became one of many crucial parts of contemporary optical know-how. Early paintings has usually curious about the transmission of sunshine over lengthy distances, really to be used in optical fiber communications. extra paintings has enormously improved the appliance components of optical fibers, which now additionally contain fields like fiber amplifiers, fiber lasers, supercontinuum new release, pulse compression, and fiber-optic sensors. This range of purposes has been enabled via various forms of optical fibers, which could significantly range in lots of respects.
This box advisor presents an outline of optical fiber know-how. It not just describes many differing kinds of fibers and their homes, but additionally provides in a compact shape the appropriate actual foundations. refined arithmetic, e.g., pertaining to fiber modes, will not be incorporated, as such concerns are coated intimately via a number of textbooks. either passive and energetic (amplifying) fibers are mentioned, and an summary on fiber nonlinearities and the applying of lively fibers in amplifiers and lasers is incorporated. the big bibliography comprises many helpful references, overlaying either pioneering paintings and later seminal articles and books. This advisor will be very precious for a large viewers, together with practitioners in in addition to researchers.