Supercontinuum Generation in Optical Fibers
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...
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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.
List of contributors viiPreface xi1 Introduction and history J. R. Taylor 12 Supercontinuum generation in microstructure fibers - a historical note J. K. Ranka 303 Nonlinear fibre optics overview J. C. Travers M. H. Frosz J. M. Dudley 324 Fibre supercontinuum generation overview J. M. Dudley G. Genty S. Coen 525 Silica fibres for supercontinuum generation J. C. Knight W. J. Wadsworth 626 Supercontinuum generation and nonlinearity in soft glass fibres Jonathan H. V. Price David J. Richardson 827 Increasing the blue-shift of a picosecond pumped supercontinuum M. H. Frosz P. M. Moselund P. D. Rasmussen C. L. Thomsen O. Bang 1198 Continuous wave supercontinuum generation J. C. Travers 1429 Theory of supercontinuum and interaction of solitons with dispersive waves D. V. Skryabin A. V. Gorbach 17810 Interaction of four-wave mixing and stimulated Raman scattering in optical fibers S. Coen S. G. Murdoch F. Vanholsbeeck 19911 Nonlinear optics in emerging waveguides: revised fundamentals and implications S. Afshar V. M. Turner T M. Monro 22612 Supercontinuum generation in dispersion-varying fibers G. Genty 28513 Supercontinuum generation in chalcogenide glass waveguides Dong-Il Yeom M. R. E. Lamont B. Luther Davies B. J. Eggleton 30614 Supercontinuum generation for carrier-envelope phase stabilization of mode-locked lasers S. T. Cundiff 33415 Biophotonics applications of supercontinuum generation C. Dunsby P. M. W. French 34916 Fiber sources of tailored supercontinuum in nonlinear microspectroscopy and imaging A. M. Zheltikov 373Index 399
