Guided Wave Optical Components and Devices

The book provides a comprehensive, lucid, and clear introduction to the world of guided wave optical components and devices. Bishnu Pal has collaborated with some of the greatest minds in optics. Written by leaders in the field, high-quality fiber optic fibers, polymer fiber components and waveguides, acousto-optic interactions in fibers, higher order mode. fibers, nonlinear and parametric process in fibers, fiberglass amplifiers in RFID doped and Raman fiber amplifiers in DWDM and CATV networks, all-fiber network couplers, fiber gratings, and side-polished fiber half-couplers, arrayed waveguides, optical MEMS, fiber sensing technologies, civil structural health monitoring, and gyroscope applications.




* Accessible introduction to wide range of topics.
* Single-source reference for graduate students in optical engineering and newcomer practitioners, focused on components.
* Extensive bibliographical information is included in the optical network.

CH 1: Single-mode fiber designs - evolutionary trends / CH 2: CH3: Microstructured optical fibers / CH 4: Photonic Bandgap Bragg fibers / CH 5: Radial effective index method for the analysis of microstructured fibers / CH 6: Fiber optic parametric amplifiers for lightwave systems / CH 8: Fiber optic amplifiers for lightwave systems / CH 8: Fiber optic Raman amplifiers / CH 10: Application of numerical analysis techniques for the optimization of wideband amplifier performances / CH 11: Analog and digital transmission using high-power Fiber amplifiers / CH 12: Optical amplifiers for dynamic optical networks / CH 13: Fused fiber couplers: Fabrication, Modeling, and Applications / CH 14 : Side-polished evanescently coupled optical fiber overlay devices / CH 15: Fiber gratings / CH 16: Enhancing photosensitivity of optical fibers / CH 17: Solitons in fiber Bragg gratings / CH 18: A dvances in DWDM multiplexing / demultiplexing Technologies / CH 19: Dispersion tailored higher order mode fibers for in-line fiber photonic devices / CH 20: Acousto-optic interactions in few-mode optical fibers / CH 21: Basic theory and design procedures for arrayed waveguide structures / CH 22: Photobleached gratings in electrooptic waveguide polymers / CH 23: Optical MEMS using commercial foundries / CH 24: Principles of fiber optic sensors / CH 25: Structural strain and temperature measurements using FBG sensors / CH 26: Principles and status of some online researched optical fiber sensors