Nonlinear Fiber Optics, 6th Edition

Preface

Govind P. Agrawal     

Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 1989, the field of nonlinear fiber optics has remained an active area of research and has continued to grow at a rapid pace. During the 1990s, a major factor behind such a sustained growth was the advent of fiber amplifiers and lasers, made by doping silica fibers with rare-earth materials such as erbium and ytterbium. Optical amplifiers permitted propagation of light over thousands of kilometers as they could compensate for all losses encountered in the optical domain. At the same time, fiber amplifiers enabled the use of massive wavelength-division multiplexing. Nonlinear fiber optics played an important role in the design process of such high-capacity telecommunication ...