Supercontinuum Generation In Optical Fibers

Supercontinuum Generation in Optical Fibers

The optical fiber based supercontinuum source has recently become a significant scientific and commercial success, with applications ranging from frequency comb production to advanced medical imaging. This one-of-a-kind book explains the theory of fiber supercontinuum broadening, describes the diverse operational regimes and indicates principal areas of applications, making it a very important guide for researchers and graduate students. With contributions from major figures and groups who have pioneered research in this field, the book describes the historical development of the subject, provides a background to the associated nonlinear optical processes, treats the generation mechanisms from continuous wave to femtosecond pulse pump regimes and highlights the diverse applications. A full discussion of numerical methods and comprehensive computer code are also provided, enabling readers to confidently predict and model supercontinuum generation characteristics under realistic conditions.

Supercontinuum Generation in Optical Fibers

Supercontinuum Generation in Specialty Optical Fibers

This book focuses on the basic understanding of specialty optical fibers, their applications in mid-IR light generation, and cutting-edge research in the field. The book provides all the basic knowledge about specialty optical fibers and their characteristics, including dispersion, losses, propagation of modes, and so forth. Finally, the technologies based on optical fibers and their applications in all prospective areas of research are discussed. Features: Provides an introduction to the history of the specialty optical fibers, and technologies based on specialty optical fibers Explores specific applications of mid-IR supercontinuum generation in specialty optical fibers Discusses the fabrication of specialty optical fiber-based photonic devices Reviews the integration of nanotechnology with specialty optical fibers Details future prospectives of specialty optical fiber-based photonic devices This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in photonics, optics, physics, and photonic crystal fibers.