Fiber Optics: Advances in Research and Development

✍ Scribed by Peter C. Schultz (auth.), Bernard Bendow, Shashanka S. Mitra (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 676
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In June 1978 the University of Rhode Island conducted a three-day short course on Recent Advances in Fiber Optics. followed by a two-day conference on the Physics of Fiber Optics. The course contained over a dozen lectures spanning a wide range of subject matter from fundamental theory to operational systems. presented by well-known scientists from industry. government and academic institutions. The conference. on the other hand. emphasized basic research on fiber optics and related subjects. This volume contains both papers presented at the conference. as well as the majority of the lectures from the course (the written versions were solicited on a voluntary basis for this volume). In some cases the papers in this volume represent expanded or otherwise modified versions of the original presentations. One of the principal aims of the conference was promulgation of novel and/or unconventional concepts. For this reason. the papers in this volume cover subjects such as bistable optical switches. fiber acoustic sensors. extruded infrared fibers. compressively coated glass fibers. and soliton propagation in fibers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Vapor Phase Materials and Processes for Glass Optical Waveguides....Pages 3-31
Fiber Drawing Process: Characterization and Control....Pages 33-53
Analytical Techniques for the Prediction of the Fiber Forming Process....Pages 55-76
An Overview of Optical Waveguide Coatings....Pages 77-103
Infrared Fiber Optical Materials....Pages 105-118
Fabrication of Silver Halide Fibers by Extrusion....Pages 119-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
High Strength Furnace-Drawn Optical Fibers....Pages 125-135
High Strength CVD Fibers....Pages 137-142
Strengthening of Optical Fibers by Molecular Stuffing....Pages 143-163
Effect of Zero Stress Aging on the Strength of Optical Fibers....Pages 165-186
Fracture Surface Analysis of Optical Fibers....Pages 187-208
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
Nonlinear Effects in Optical Fibers: Application to the Fabrication of Active and Passive Devices....Pages 211-240
Forward and Backward Stimulated Raman Scattering in a Multimode Fiber....Pages 241-253
Fiber Parameter Studies with the OTDR....Pages 255-268
Refractive Index Modulation in Optical Fibers Fabricated by the Vapor Oxidation Process....Pages 269-275
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
Propagating Fields in Graded Index Optical Fibers....Pages 279-302
Modes of Weakly Guiding Fibers by an Integral Representation Technique....Pages 303-311
Propagation of Nonlinear Optical Pulses in Fibers....Pages 313-321
Solitons in the Theory of Guided Lightwaves....Pages 323-351
Front Matter....Pages 353-353
Radiation-Induced Optical Absorption Spectra of Fiber Optic Waveguides in the 0.4–1.7 μ Region....Pages 355-367
Front Matter....Pages 353-353
Optical Absorption Spectra of Neutron Irradiated Optical Fibers in the 0. 7–1. 1 µ m Region....Pages 369-378
Neutron- and Gamma-Induced Transient Effects in Optical Fibers....Pages 379-392
Front Matter....Pages 393-393
Bistable Optical Devices: An Overview....Pages 395-413
Multimode 3x2 Fiber-Optical Matrix Switch....Pages 415-429
Ultrafast Optically Activated Switching in Semiconducting Materials....Pages 431-435
Fiber Connectors, Splices and Couplers....Pages 437-494
Access Couplers for Single Strand Systems....Pages 495-508
Front Matter....Pages 509-509
Fiber Optic System Design and Component Selection....Pages 511-555
Light Wave Transmission Systems for Telecommunication Application....Pages 557-564
Semiconductor Light Sources for Fiber Optical Communication....Pages 565-609
Front Matter....Pages 611-611
Novel Applications of Fiber Optics....Pages 613-624
Utilization of Optical Fibers in Remote Inelastic Light Scattering Probes....Pages 625-640
Optical Fiber Acoustic Sensors....Pages 641-655
Optical Fiber Acoustic Sensor....Pages 657-677
Back Matter....Pages 679-693

✦ Subjects

Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices