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Chapter
Fundamentals of Raman Amplification in Fibers
Raman scattering was discovered independently and almost simultaneously in 1928 by groups in India and Russia [1, 2]. If C.V. Raman had not published first we might know Raman scattering as the Landsberg-Mandelst...
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Chapter
Overview of Fiber Nonlinear Optics
This paper presents an overview and introduction to a series of lectures on fiber nonlinear optics. Specific examples of fiber-grating pulse compression, materials, and second harmonic generation in fibers are...
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Chapter
Second Harmonic Generation in Optical Fibers
Second harmonic generation was not expected to play an important role in fiber nonlinear optics. In contrast to bulk and planar guided-wave nonlinear optics, where so-called χ(2) phenomena such as second harmonic...
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Article
Materials and Processing Requirements for Efficient Fiber Optic Nonlinear Devices
Materials and structures for efficient nonlinear devices are discussed in terms of Raman amplification, nonlinear switching, and self-organized gratings.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Generation of 0.41-Picosecond Pulses by the Single-Stage Compression of Frequency Doubled Nd: YAG Laser Pulses
The technique of optical pulse compression utilizing self-phase modulation (SPM) to chirp the pulse in a single-mode fiber followed by a grating-pair dispersive delay line has been very successful in compressi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Procedure for Calculating Optical Pulse Compression from Fiber-Grating Combinations
An optical pulse can be compressed by a dispersive grating pair after first inducing a frequency chirp in a single-mode optical fiber [1,2]. It is of interest to know how much compression is possible and what ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Soliton Laser
The soliton laser, a novel concept in ultrashort-pulse lasers, is a mode-locked laser using pulse compression and solitons in a single-mode fiber to force the laser itself to produce pulses of a well-defined s...
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Chapter
Active Fibers
Optical fibers are usually considered to be passive(3) or linear media. In actual fact, optical fibers can exhibit wavelength conversion and other nonlinear optical effects at powers as low as a few milliwats.
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Chapter
Nonlinear Propagation Effects in Glass Fibers
Nonlinearities in optical fibers constitute a rich and diverse field of interest for devices, for the limits imposed on fiber transmission, and for the study of nonlinear optics. The basic properties of fiber ...
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Chapter
Fiber Raman Lasers
Optical fibers can exhibit wavelength conversion and other nonlinear optical effects at powers less than one watt. The reason has little to do with the glass in the fiber core, which is one of the least nonlin...
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Chapter
Two Photon and Two-Step Absorption in Glass Optical Waveguide
We have observed a variety of phenomena in studies of two photon effects in glass optical waveguides. The long interaction lengths in fibers provide great sensitivity to weak effects so that these techniques a...
