Supercontinuum Generation in Optical Fibers

by Edited by J. M. Dudley , J. R. Taylor

• ISBN13: 9780521514804
• ISBN10: 0521514800
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The optical fiber based supercontinuum source has recently become a significant scientific and commercial success, with applications ranging from frequency comb production to advanced medical imaging. This one-of-a-kind book explains the theory of fiber supercontinuum broadening, describes the diverse operational regimes and indicates principal areas of applications, making it a very important guide for researchers and graduate students. With contributions from major figures and groups who have pioneered research in this field, the book describes the historical development of the subject, provides a background to the associated nonlinear optical processes, treats the generation mechanisms from continuous wave to femtosecond pulse pump regimes and highlights the diverse applications. A full discussion of numerical methods and comprehensive computer code are also provided, enabling readers to confidently predict and model supercontinuum generation characteristics under realistic conditions.

Author Biography

J. M. Dudley is a Professor in the Dpartement d'Optique P. M. Duffieux at the Universit de Franche-Comt and CNRS research institute FEMTO-ST in Besanon, France. His research has spanned both experimental and theoretical nonlinear optics and photonics. J. R. Taylor is a Professor in the Physics Department at Imperial College London. He has made contributions in various aspects of laser research, photonics, ultrafast processes, optical fibers, and non-linear optics.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Introduction and history	p. 1
Supercontinuum generation in microstructure fibers - a historical note	p. 30
Nonlinear fibre optics overview	p. 32
Fibre supercontinuum generation overview	p. 52
Silica fibres for supercontinuum generation	p. 62
Supercontinuum generation and nonlinearity in soft glass fibres	p. 82
Increasing the blue-shift of a picosecond pumped supercontinuum	p. 119
Continuous wave supercontinuum generation	p. 142
Theory of supercontinuum and interaction of solitons with dispersive waves	p. 178
Interaction of four-wave mixing and stimulated Raman scattering in optical fibers	p. 199
Nonlinear optics in emerging waveguides: revised fundamentals and implications	p. 226
Supercontinuum generation in dispersion-varying fibers	p. 285
Supercontinuum generation in chalcogenide glass waveguides	p. 306
Supercontinuum generation for carrier-envelope phase stabilization of mode-locked lasers	p. 334
Biophotonics applications of supercontinuum generation	p. 349
Fiber sources of tailored supercontinuum in nonlinear microspectroscopy and imaging	p. 373
Index	p. 399
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