Shaping Light in Nonlinear Optical Fibers E-Book

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Beschreibung

This book is a contemporary overview of selected topics in fiber optics. It focuses on the latest research results on light wave manipulation using nonlinear optical fibers, with the aim of capturing some of the most innovative developments on this topic. The book’s scope covers both fundamentals and applications from both theoretical and experimental perspectives, with topics including linear and nonlinear effects, pulse propagation phenomena and pulse shaping, solitons and rogue waves, novel optical fibers, supercontinuum generation, polarization management, optical signal processing, fiber lasers, optical wave turbulence, light propagation in disordered fiber media, and slow and fast light. With contributions from leading-edge scientists in the field of nonlinear photonics and fiber optics, they offer an overview of the latest advances in their own research area.  The listing of recent research papers at the end of each chapter is useful for researchers using the book as a reference. As the book addresses fundamental and practical photonics problems, it will also be of interest to, and benefit, broader academic communities, including areas such as nonlinear science, applied mathematics and physics, and optical engineering. It offers the reader a wide and critical overview of the state-of-the-art within this practical – as well as fundamentally important and interesting – area of modern science, providing a useful reference which will encourage further research and advances in the field.

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Shaping Light in Nonlinear Optical Fibers

Edited by

Sonia BoscoloAston University, Birmingham, UK

Christophe FinotUniversité de Bourgogne - Franche-Comté, Dijon, France

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataNames: Boscolo, Sonia, 1971-- editor. | Finot, Christophe, 1978-- editor.

Title: Shaping light in nonlinear optical fibers / edited by Sonia Boscolo, Christophe Finot.Description: Chichester, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2017. | Includes index.Identifiers: LCCN 2016048229 | ISBN 9781119088127 (cloth) | ISBN 9781119088141 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119088158 (epub)Subjects: LCSH: Nonlinear optics–Materials. | Optical fibers. | Nonlinear waves.Classification: LCC TA1800 .S46 2017 | DDC 621.382/75--dc23 LC record available athttps://lccn.loc.gov/2016048229

Cover image: Julien Fatome and Stephane Pitois

CONTENTS

List of Contributors

Preface

Structure of the Book

Chapter 1 Modulation Instability, Four-Wave Mixing and their Applications

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Modulation Instability

1.3 Four-Wave Mixing Dynamics

1.4 Fiber Cavity MI and FWM

References

Chapter 2 Phase-Sensitive Amplification and Regeneration

2.1 Introduction to Phase-Sensitive Amplifiers

2.2 Operation Principles and Realization of Phase-Sensitive Parametric Devices

2.3 One-Mode Parametric Processes

2.4 Two-Mode Parametric Processes

2.5 Four-Mode Parametric Processes

2.6 Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 3 Novel Nonlinear Optical Phenomena in Gas-Filled Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fibers

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Nonlinear Pulse Propagation in Guided Kerr Media

3.3 Ionization Effects in Gas-Filled HC-PCFs

3.4 Raman Effects in Gas-Filled HC-PCFs

3.5 Interplay Between Ionization and Raman Effects in Gas-Filled HC-PCFs

3.6 Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 4 Modulation Instability in Periodically Modulated Fibers

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Basic Theory of Modulation Instability in Periodically Modulated Waveguides

4.3 Fabrication of Periodically Modulated Photonic Crystal Fibers

4.4 Experimental Results

4.5 Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 5 Pulse Generation and Shaping Using Fiber Nonlinearities

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Picosecond Pulse Propagation in Optical Fibers

5.3 Pulse Compression and Ultrahigh-Repetition-Rate Pulse Train Generation

5.4 Generation of Specialized Temporal Waveforms

5.5 Spectral Shaping

5.6 Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 6 Nonlinear-Dispersive Similaritons of Passive Fibers: Applications in Ultrafast Optics

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Spectron and Dispersive Fourier Transformation

6.3 Nonlinear-Dispersive Similariton

6.4 Time Lens and NL-D Similariton

6.5 Similariton for Femtosecond Pulse Imaging and Characterization

6.6 Conclusion

References

Chapter 7 Applications of Nonlinear Optical Fibers and Solitons in Biophotonics and Microscopy

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Soliton Generation

7.3 TPEF Microscopy

7.4 SHG Microscopy

7.5 Coherent Raman Scattering

7.6 MCARS Microscopy

7.7 ps-CARS Microscopy

7.8 SRS Microscopy

7.9 Pump-Probe Microscopy

7.10 Increasing the Soliton Energy

7.11 Conclusion

References

Chapter 8 Self-Organization of Polarization State in Optical Fibers

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Principle of Operation

8.3 Experimental Setup

8.4 Theoretical Description

8.5 Bistability Regime and Related Applications

8.6 Alignment Regime

8.7 Chaotic Regime and All-Optical Scrambling for WDM Applications

8.8 Future Perspectives: Towards an All-Optical Modal Control in Fibers

8.9 Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 9 All-Optical Pulse Shaping in the Sub-Picosecond Regime Based on Fiber Grating Devices

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Non-Fiber-Grating-Based Optical Pulse Shaping Techniques

9.3 Motivation of Fiber-Grating Based Optical Pulse Shaping

9.4 Recent Work on Fiber Gratings-Based Optical Pulse Shapers: Reaching the Sub-Picosecond Regime

9.5 Advances towards Reconfigurable Schemes

9.6 Conclusion

References

Chapter 10 Rogue Breather Structures in Nonlinear Systems with an Emphasis on Optical Fibers as Testbeds

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Optical Rogue Waves as Nonlinear Schrödinger Breathers

10.3 Linear-Nonlinear Wave Shaping as Rogue Wave Generator

10.4 Experimental Demonstrations

10.5 Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 11 Wave-Breaking and Dispersive Shock Wave Phenomena in Optical Fibers

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Gradient Catastrophe and Classical Shock Waves

11.3 Shock Formation in Optical Fibers

11.4 Competing Wave-Breaking Mechanisms

11.5 Resonant Radiation Emitted by Dispersive Shocks

11.6 Shock Waves in Passive Cavities

11.7 Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 12 Optical Wave Turbulence in Fibers

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Wave Turbulence Kinetic Equation

12.3 Weak Langmuir Turbulence Formalism

12.4 Vlasov Formalism

12.5 Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 13 Nonlocal Disordered Media and Experiments in Disordered Fibers

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Nonlinear Behavior of Light in Transversely Disordered Fiber

13.3 Experiments on the Localization Length in Disordered Fibers

13.4 Shock Waves in Disordered Systems

13.5 Experiments on Shock Waves in Disordered Media

13.6 Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 14 Wide Variability of Generation Regimes in Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Variability of Generation Regimes

14.3 Phenomenological Model of Double-Scale Pulses

14.4 Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 15 Ultralong Raman Fiber Lasers and Their Applications

15.1 Introduction

15.2 Raman Amplification

15.3 Ultralong Raman Fiber Lasers Basics

15.4 Applications of Ultralong Raman Fiber Lasers

15.5 Conclusion

References

Chapter 16 Shaping Brillouin Light in Specialty Optical Fibers

16.1 Introduction

16.2 Historical Background

16.3 Theory

16.4 Tapered Optical Fibers

16.5 Conclusion

References

Index

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