A Quick Survey.- Physical Foundations.- Treatment with Ray Optics.- Treatment with Wave Optics.- Chromatic Dispersion.- Losses.- Technical Conditions for Fiber Technology.- Manufacturing and Mechanical Properties.- How to Measure Important Fiber Characteristics.- Components for Fiber Technology.- Nonlinear Phenomena in Fibers.- Basics of Nonlinear Processes.- A Survey of Nonlinear Processes.- Technological Applications of Optical Fibers.- Applications in Telecommunications.- Fiber-Optic Sensors.- Appendices.- Decibel Units.- Skin Effect.- Bessel Functions.- Optics with Gaussian Beams.- Relations for Secans Hyperbolicus.- Autocorrelation Measurement.
Prof. Fedor Mitschke, a German physicist, was involved in pioneering work on fiber-optic solitons at Bell Laboratories in 1985-86. He has held teaching positions at universities in Hannover, Munich, Munster, and Rostock (all in Germany). Since 1997 he holds the chair for optics at the Institute of Physics at Rostock University. This book grew out of lectures he gave at Hannover, Munster, Rostock, and (as visiting professor) in Lulea (Sweden).
From the reviews: "This six-part volume is a translation of the 2005 German work. Following a brief introductory overview on the evolution of fiber optics, Mitschke (Universitat Rostock, Germany) groups the remaining covered topics into four parts. ... References and a glossary of terms complete the text. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and above." (O. Eknoyan, Choice, Vol. 47 (11), August, 2010)
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