Handbook of Optical Fibers

Handbook of Optical Fibers
Author: Gang-Ding Peng
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-08-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9789811070853

This research- and application-oriented book covers main topical areas of optical fibers. The selection of the chapters is weighted on technological and application-specific topics, very much a reflection of where research is heading to and what researchers are looking for. Chapters are arranged in a user-friendly format essentially self-contained and with extensive cross-references. They are organized in the following sections: - Optical Fiber Communication | Editors: Ming-Jun Li and Chao Lu - Solitons and Nonlinear Waves in Optical Fibers | Editor: Boris A. Malomed - Optical Fiber Fabrication | Editor: Hairul Azhar Bin Abdul Rashid - Active Optical Fibers | Editor: Kyunghwan Oh - Special Optical Fibers | Editors: Perry Shum and Zhilin Xu - Optical Fiber Measurement | Editor: Jianzhong Zhang - Optical Fiber Devices | Editors: John Canning and Tuan Guo - Optical Fiber Device Measurement | Editor: Yanhua Luo - Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing | Editor: Yosuke Mizuno - Optical Fiber Sensors for Industrial Applications | Editor: Tong Sun OBE - Polymer Optical Fiber Sensing | Editor: Ginu Rajan - Photonic Crystal Fiber Sensing | Editor: D. N. Wang - Optical Fiber Microfluidic Sensors | Editor: Yuan Gong

Popular Science

Popular Science
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2004-12
Genre:
ISBN:

Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.

Fiber Optics Engineering

Fiber Optics Engineering
Author: Mohammad Azadeh
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2009-08-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1441903046

Within the past few decades, information technologies have been evolving at a tremendous rate, causing profound changes to our world and our ways of life. In particular, fiber optics has been playing an increasingly crucial role within the telecommunication revolution. Not only most long-distance links are fiber based, but optical fibers are increasingly approaching the individual end users, providing wide bandwidth links to support all kinds of data-intensive applications such as video, voice, and data services. As an engineering discipline, fiber optics is both fascinating and challenging. Fiber optics is an area that incorporates elements from a wide range of techno- gies including optics, microelectronics, quantum electronics, semiconductors, and networking. As a result of rapid changes in almost all of these areas, fiber optics is a fast evolving field. Therefore, the need for up-to-date texts that address this growing field from an interdisciplinary perspective persists. This book presents an overview of fiber optics from a practical, engineering perspective. Therefore, in addition to topics such as lasers, detectors, and optical fibers, several topics related to electronic circuits that generate, detect, and process the optical signals are covered. In other words, this book attempts to present fiber optics not so much in terms of a field of “optics” but more from the perspective of an engineering field within “optoelectronics.

Polymer Optical Fibres

Polymer Optical Fibres
Author: Christian-Alexander Bunge
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2016-08-25
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0081000561

Polymer Optical Fibres: Fibre Types, Materials, Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications explores polymer optical fibers, specifically their materials, fabrication, characterization, measurement techniques, and applications. Optical effects, including light propagation, degrading effects of attenuation, scattering, and dispersion, are explained. Other important parameters like mechanical strength, operating temperatures, and processability are also described. Polymer optical fibers (POF) have a number of advantages over glass fibers, such as low cost, flexibility, low weight, electromagnetic immunity, good bandwidth, simple installation, and mechanical stability. - Provides systematic and comprehensive coverage of materials, fabrication, properties, measurement techniques, and applications of POF - Focuses on industry needs in communication, illumination and sensors, the automotive industry, and medical and biotechnology - Features input from leading experts in POF technology, with experience spanning optoelectronics, polymer, and textiles - Explains optical effects, including light propagation, degrading effects of attenuation, scattering, and dispersion

Photonic Crystals

Photonic Crystals
Author: John D. Joannopoulos
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2011-10-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1400828244

Since it was first published in 1995, Photonic Crystals has remained the definitive text for both undergraduates and researchers on photonic band-gap materials and their use in controlling the propagation of light. This newly expanded and revised edition covers the latest developments in the field, providing the most up-to-date, concise, and comprehensive book available on these novel materials and their applications. Starting from Maxwell's equations and Fourier analysis, the authors develop the theoretical tools of photonics using principles of linear algebra and symmetry, emphasizing analogies with traditional solid-state physics and quantum theory. They then investigate the unique phenomena that take place within photonic crystals at defect sites and surfaces, from one to three dimensions. This new edition includes entirely new chapters describing important hybrid structures that use band gaps or periodicity only in some directions: periodic waveguides, photonic-crystal slabs, and photonic-crystal fibers. The authors demonstrate how the capabilities of photonic crystals to localize light can be put to work in devices such as filters and splitters. A new appendix provides an overview of computational methods for electromagnetism. Existing chapters have been considerably updated and expanded to include many new three-dimensional photonic crystals, an extensive tutorial on device design using temporal coupled-mode theory, discussions of diffraction and refraction at crystal interfaces, and more. Richly illustrated and accessibly written, Photonic Crystals is an indispensable resource for students and researchers. Extensively revised and expanded Features improved graphics throughout Includes new chapters on photonic-crystal fibers and combined index-and band-gap-guiding Provides an introduction to coupled-mode theory as a powerful tool for device design Covers many new topics, including omnidirectional reflection, anomalous refraction and diffraction, computational photonics, and much more.

Fundamentals of Plastic Optical Fibers

Fundamentals of Plastic Optical Fibers
Author: Yasuhiro Koike
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2015-02-16
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3527410066

Hervorragender Überblick über die Verwendung von Kunststoffen in der Photonik, speziell in der Datenübertragung. Der Leser erfährt, wie die photonischen Eigenschaften von Polymeren mit ihrer Struktur zusammenhängen und wie POF für den Einsatz in optischen Netzwerken optimiert werden können. Im ersten Teil des Buches werden typische Fasern in Hinblick auf Materialklassen und Ausbreitungsmoden vorgestellt. Optische Eigenschaften wie Bandbreite und Leitungsverluste werden diskutiert, ebenso Ausbreitungscharakteristika und deren Einfluss auf die Leistungsmerkmale der Fasern. Im zweiten Teil werden unterschiedliche Methoden der Herstellungs und Charakterisierung präsentiert. Mit Bezug zu den technischen Anforderungen der optischen Kommunikation konzentriert sich das letzte Kapitel auf die Vorteile und Einsatzmöglichkeiten von polymeren optischen Fasern.