Table of Contents

Amplifiers

Beam

Bragg Gratings

Cavity

Chirp

Coherence

Communications

Dispersion

Doppler

Fibers and other waveguides

Fiber-optic sensors

Fluctuations and noise

Fluorescence

Gain

General optics

Lasers

Materials

Methods

Metrology

Nonlinear optics

Photonic devices

Physical foundations

Pulses

Quantum optics

Resonators

About the Author

Rudiger Paschotta is an internationally recognized expert in areas such as lasers and amplifiers, nonlinear optics, fiber technology, ultrashort pulses, and noise in optics. He originally gained this expertise during a successful academic career, and later founded RP Photonics Consulting, providing services to companies within the photonics industry mostly in Europe and the United States. Dr. Paschotta thus combines the detailed expertise of a scientist with the practical sense of someone working mainly on industrial projects.