Description
Specialty Optical Fibers reviews theoretical and experimental photonic research relevant to the synthesis, processing, characterization, modeling, physical features, and applications of Specialty Optical Fibers (SOFs) with significant technological impact potential. All fiber-based advanced photonics device components rely on specialty optical fibers, which have either a unique waveguide structure or a novel material composition. High power optical amplifiers, high power fiber, and novel fabrication techniques for optical fiber design have enabled significant technological advances. The book provides discussion on these applications including current research directions, future opportunities and remaining challenges.Specialty Optical Fibers is suitable for researchers in academia and practitioners in R&D working in the subject areas of materials science, electrical engineering, and fiber optics.- Includes an overview of specialty optical fiber materials design and fabrication technologies- Reviews fundamentals of the most relevant optical fiber materials, including their physics, chemistry, and optoelectronics principles- Explores current research directions and future opportunities and challenges of utilization of optical fibers for a wide range of diverse applications
Table of Contents
A - FUNDAMENTALS1. Introduction2. Nonlinear Optics in Multimode Fibers3. Hollow core PCFs 4. Chalcogenide Photonic Crystal Fibers 5. Light Propagation in Gas Filled Kagomé Hollow-Core FibersB – FABRICATION TECHNOLOGY 6. Fluoride Optical Fibers: Fabrication and Applications 7. Fabrication and Applications of Nanostructured Soft-glass Optical Fibres8. Nano-particles doped silica glass based optical fibers: Fabrication and ApplicationC – SPECIALTY FIBERS AND APPLICATIONS 9. Plastic Optic Fibers: Types and Applications 10. Large Mode Area Fibers and Their Application as High Power Lasers11. Mid-infrared Fibers and Their Application to Supercontinuum Generation12. Multimode Fiber Amplifiers 13. Complex Nonlinear Multimode Fiber Systems14. Low Nonlinearity Optical Fibers and Their Applications15. All-fiber Single Photon Sources16. Ultrafast Fiber Lasers at 2 µm and Applications 17. MW Peak Power Diffraction-limited Chirped-pulse Yb-doped Tapered Fiber Amplifier18. New Fiber Probes for Biosensing and Imaging19. Gas-Filled Hollow Core Fiber Laser in the Mid-infrared
