Odyssey of Light in Nonlinear Optical Fibers

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Editors

Contributors

Chapter 1 Basic nonlinear fiber optics

K. Thyagarajan and Ajoy Ghatak

1.1  Introduction

1.2  Modes of a Step-Index Fiber

1.3  Guided Modes of a Step-Index Fiber

1.4  Single-Mode Fiber

1.4.1 Spot Size of the Fundamental Mode

1.5  Pulse Dispersion in Optical Fibers

1.5.1 Material Dispersion

1.5.2 Waveguide Dispersion

1.5.3 Total Dispersion

1.5.4 Dispersion and Maximum Bit Rate in Single-Mode Fibers

1.5.5 Dispersion-Compensating Fibers

1.6  Nonlinear Effects in Optical Fibers

1.6.1 Self-Phase Modulation

1.7  Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation

1.8  Spectral Broadening Due to Spm

1.8.1 Cross-Phase Modulation

1.8.2 Four-Wave Mixing

1.8.3 Fiber Optic Parametric Amplifier

1.8.4 Supercontinuum ...