Fiber Optics Physics and Technology /
This book tells you all you want to know about optical fibers: Their structure, their light-guiding mechanism, their material and manufacture, their use. It began with telephone, then came telefax and email. Today we use search engines, music downloads and internet videos, all of which require shuff...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2016.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. 2016. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-52764-1 |
Table of Contents:
- I Introduction
- A Quick Survey
- II Physical Foundations
- Treatment with Ray Optics
- Treatment with Wave Optics
- Chromatic Dispersion
- Losses
- III Technical Conditions for Fiber Technology
- Manufacturing and Mechanical Properties
- How to Measure Important Fiber Characteristics
- Components for Fiber Technology
- IV Nonlinear Phenomena in Fibers
- Basics of Nonlinear Processes
- A Survey of Nonlinear Processes
- V Technological Applications of Optical Fibers
- Applications in Telecommunications
- Fiber-Optic Sensors. VI Appendices
- Decibel Units
- Skin Effect
- Bessel Functions
- Optics with Gaussian Beams
- Relations for Secans Hyperbolicus
- Autocorrelation Measurement.