Book description
Guided Wave Optics and Photonic Devices introduces readers to a broad cross-section of topics in this area, from the basics of guided wave optics and nonlinear optics to biophotonics. The book is inspired by and expands on lectures delivered by distinguished speakers at a three-week school on guided wave optics and devices organized at the CSIR-Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute in Kolkata in 2011.
An Introduction to Guided Wave Optics and Photonic Devices: Principles, Applications, and Future Directions
The book discusses the concept of modes in a guided medium from first principles, emphasizing the importance of dispersion properties in optical fibers. It describes fabrication and characterization techniques of rare-earth-doped optical fibers for amplifiers and lasers, with an eye to future applications. Avoiding complex mathematical formalism, it also presents the basic theory and operational principles of fiber amplifiers and lasers. The book examines techniques for writing fiber Bragg gratings, which are of particular interest for smart sensing applications. A chapter focuses on the fundamental principles of Fourier optics and its implementation in guided wave optics.
In addition, the book explains the critical phenomena of soliton dynamics and supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber, including its fabrication process and characteristics. It also looks at plasmonics in guided media and nonlinearity in stratified media—both key areas for future research. The last chapter explores the importance of lasers in biophotonic applications.
Written by experts engaged in teaching, research, and development in optics and photonics, this reference brings together fundamentals and recent advances in one volume. It offers a valuable overview of the field for students and researchers alike and identifies directions for future research in guided wave and photonic device technology.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Editors
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Concept of Modes in Optical Waveguides
- Chapter 2 Modes in Optical Fibres
- Chapter 3 Dispersion in Optical Fibres
- Chapter 4 Evolution of Specialty Optical Fibres
- Chapter 5 Materials and Fabrication Technology of Rare-Earth-Doped Optical Fibres
- Chapter 6 Optical Fibre Amplifiers
- Chapter 7 Erbium-Doped Fibre Lasers
- Chapter 8 Semiconductor Light Sources and Detectors
- Chapter 9 Silicon-Based Detectors and Sources for Optoelectronic Devices
- Chapter 10 Advances in Packet Optical Transport in Optical Networking and Broadband Transmission
- Chapter 11 Guided-Wave Fourier Optics
- Chapter 12 Fibre Bragg Gratings: Basic Theory
- Chapter 13 Photosensitivity, In-Fibre Grating Writing Techniques and Applications
- Chapter 14 Optical Solitons in Nonlinear Fibre Systems: Recent Developments
- Chapter 15 Photonic Crystal Fibre: Basic Principles of Light Guidance, Fabrication Process and Applications
- Chapter 16 Nonlinear Optics and Physics of Supercontinuum Generation in Optical Fibre
- Chapter 17 Guided Wave Plasmonics
- Chapter 18 Stratified Media for Novel Optics, Perfect Transmission and Perfect Coherent Absorption
- Chapter 19 Nonlinear Optical Frequency Conversion Using Quasi-Phase Matching
- Chapter 20 Biophotonics: An Introduction
- Index
Product information
- Title: Guided Wave Optics and Photonic Devices
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2017
- Publisher(s): CRC Press
- ISBN: 9781351832441
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