New Directions in Guided Wave and Coherent Optics

✍ Scribed by R. H. Stolen (auth.), D. B. Ostrowsky, E. Spitz (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 701
• Series: NATO ASI Series 78/79
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Active Fibers....Pages 1-22
Self-Induced Nonlinear Effects in Optical Fibers: A Unified Approach....Pages 23-41
Ultrashort Pulse Propagation in Optical Fibers....Pages 43-60
Temporally Coherent Fiber Optics....Pages 61-96
Introduction to Monomode Fibre Transmission Systems....Pages 97-128
Frequency Stabilisation of Diode Lasers....Pages 129-153
Light Amplifiers in Optical Communication Systems....Pages 155-192
Phasor Derivation of the Fundamental Limits on the Spectral Purity of Laser Fields....Pages 193-207
Polarization-Maintaining Fibers....Pages 209-224
Fibre Optical Sensors....Pages 225-245
Fibers in Medicine — I....Pages 247-270
Fibers in Medicine II....Pages 271-297
Fiber-Optic Gyroscopes....Pages 299-333
Optical Beam Phase-Conjugation by Stimulated Backscattering in Multimode Optical Waveguides....Pages 335-356
Phase Conjugation and Applications to Real Time Optical Treatment....Pages 357-370
Integrated Optical Modulation and Switching....Pages 371-404
Waveguides and Subpicosecond Switching....Pages 405-418
Bistable Optical Devices....Pages 419-435
Fiber and Integrated Optical Devices for Signal Processing....Pages 437-448
Nonlinear Integrated Optics....Pages 449-479
Parametric Amplification and Oscillation....Pages 481-494
Non Linear Interactions in LiNbO 3 Guides....Pages 495-517
Integrated Optical Oscillators and Multivibrators....Pages 519-530
Integrated Acousto-Optics: The Technology and the Competition....Pages 531-544
Geodesic Optics....Pages 545-575
Tapered Monomode Optical Waveguides....Pages 577-587
Monomode Optical Waveguide Connectors....Pages 589-602
Optical Fiber System for Strain and Vibration Measurements....Pages 603-610
InP-Based Integrated Optics....Pages 611-622
Ti Diffusion Process in LiNbO 3 ....Pages 623-637
Guided-Wave Optical Spectroscopy of Thin Films....Pages 639-657
Fiber-Coupled Heterodyne-Detection at 10 μm-Preliminary Experiments....Pages 659-673
French Activities in Guided Waves Optics....Pages 675-677
Fiber and Integrated Optics in Germany: A National Review....Pages 679-685
Back Matter....Pages 687-692

✦ Subjects

Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices