Supercontinuum Generation in Specialty Optical Fibers

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-79651-2
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 154 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 405 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saini, Than Singh

Sinha, Ravindra Kumar

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Angewandte Optik
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Lichtwellenleiter
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technische Optik, Lasertechnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Historical Development of Specialty Optical Fibers and Supercontinuum Generation 2. Introduction: Standard Optical Fibers to the Photonic Crystal Fibers 3. Propagation Characteristics of the Optical Fibers 4. Theory of Supercontinuum Generation in Photonic Crystal Fibers 5. Photonic Crystal Fiber Technologies 6. Tapered Chalcogenide Optical Fiber for Coherent Mid-IR Supercontinuum Generation 7. Applications of the Supercontinuum Generation 8. Future Perspectives of the Photonic Crystal Fibers

Über Autor(innen)

Than Singh Saini obtained Ph.D. in nonlinear fiber optics from Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India in 2016. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India. Prior to joining NIT Kurukshetra, he worked at national and internationally reputed institutions including CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organization (CSIO), Chandigarh, Optical Functional Materials Laboratory, Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India, University of Southampton, UK. He is working on experimental realization of specialty optical fibers for coherent mid-IR light sources, frequency comb generation, fiber optic parametric amplification, and fiber lasers.

Ravindra Kumar Sinha completed M.Sc. Physics from IIT Kharagpur and Ph.D. (Fiber Optics and Optoelectronics) from IIT Delhi. He did his Post-Doctoral Research at Osaka and Kobe University in Japan and at I.I.Sc Bangalore during 1989-1991. He has worked at BITS Pilani, REC/NIT Hamirpur H.P. and at DCE/DTU-Delhi. He has established TIFAC-Center of Relevance and Excellence in Fiber Optics and Optical Communication under Technology Vision 2020 Program, Conceptualized and Executed B.Tech. Engineering Physics, M.Tech.(MOCE) and M.Tech. (NST)) at DTU Delhi.