Fiber optic pulse compression :numerical techniques and applications with MATLABª /

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"Version: 20220801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.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 -- 1.6. Ultrashort-pulse-generation techniques -- 1.7. Pulse compression -- 1.8. Experiments with pulse-compression techniques -- 1.9. Organization of this book2. 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 -- 2.9. Fabrication of photonic crystal fiber -- 2.10. Material selection for PCF modeling -- 2.11. Advantages -- 2.12. Pulse compression in PCF3. 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 method4. Soliton propagation -- 4.1. Soliton -- 4.2. Nonlinear propagation in optical fiber -- 4.3. Split-step Fourier method -- 4.4. Nonlinear propagation in optical fiber -- 4.5. Importance of optical solitons -- 4.6. Why solitons in photonic crystal fiber?5. Conventional compression schemes -- 5.1. Mechanism of pulse compression -- 5.2. Soliton compression -- 5.3. Quality analysis -- 5.4. Adiabatic compression -- 5.5. Pulse-parameter equation -- 5.6. Projection operator method6. Self-similar compression -- 6.1. Review of pulse compression -- 6.2. Pulse compression through self-similar analysis7. 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 -- 7.5. Soliton propagation in NOLMs -- 7.6. Soliton pulse compression in NOLMs8. 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 analysis9. Supercontinuum compression -- 9.1. Supercontinuum generation -- 9.2. Physical mechanisms -- 9.3. Pulse compression through SCG -- 9.4. Tunable pulse compression -- 9.5. Theoretical model.This book provides information on various pulse compression techniques in the aspect of theoretical modelling as well as experiment which helps the reader to acquire a knowledge on the basic concepts of pulse compression. It fills a noticeable gap in the field and helps readers understand compression techniques and their physical mechanism through optical fiber. Students, researchers, and scientists in photonics and nonlinear fiber optics all make up the target audience for this book. Part of IOP Series in Advances in Optics, Photonics and Optoelectronics.Students, researchers, and scientists in photonics and nonlinear fiber optics.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.Professor R. Vasantha Jayakantha Raja currently works in SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur. He is actively working in the research field of nonlinear fiber optics and ultra-fast optics and focusses on numerical modelling of nonlinear pulse propagation through solid and liquid core Photonic crystal fiber (PCF) for various nonlinear applications. A. Esther Lidiya received her MSc and MPhil degree in Physics from Gandhigram Rural Institute-Deemed University. She submitted her PhD thesis in the field of nonlinear fiber optics at SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur. Her current research work is on generating ultrashort pulses through nonlinear pulse compression techniques using photonic crystal fiber.Title from PDF title page (viewed on September 5, 2022).

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