by Philippe C. Becker, N. Anders Olsson, and Jay R. Simpson, «Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers»
Academic Press | May 15, 1999 | English | ISBN: 0120845903 | PDF | 460 pages | 33 Mb

(more…)

by Govind Agrawal, «Nonlinear Fiber Optics»
Academic Press | 3rd edition (2001) | English | ISBN: 0123695163 | 552 pages | PDF | 3 Mb
The “classic” in the field of nonlinear fiber optics. Taking into account recent research on polarization, additions have been made to chapters on stimulated Raman scattering and four-wave mixing. Targeted for optical engineers, researchers, scientist and graduate students, it addresses pulse propagation in fibers.
This is a serious book written at a graduate-student or advanced-under-graduate level for the practicing professional employed in designing optical telecommunications systems and components. I don’t think the book was written with students particularly in mind, since (for example) there are no examples or problems in the book as typically found in university course work In his introduction, Agrawal says “[t]he book is aimed for researchers already engaged in or wishing to enter the filed of nonlinear fiber optics.” As the title suggests, the book’s emphasis is on nonlinear effects in optical fibers, as opposed to nonlinear effects in bulk materials.

The first chapter is pretty basic, and is mostly review material that describes things like the index cross section in an optical fiber, material issues, fabrication, chromatic dispersion, modal birefringence (which leads to polarization mode dispersion), non linear refraction and stimulated inelastic scattering. The review here is pretty brief (the chapter has only about 25 pages).

Chapter two develops the mathematics of wave propagation in optical fibers, including the mathematics of mode propagation and basic propagation equations derived from Maxwell’s equations. This chapter actually develops several different differential equations; each based on various assumptions applicable to different pulse widths. These differential equations then form the basis for later investigations into various non-linear effects discussed in the book. Chapter two is thus a foundational chapter and should be read and understood completely before moving on. There is a brief discussion at the end of the chapter that describes numerical methods.

Chapter three describes group-velocity dispersion, including chromatic dispersion as well as dispersion-induced pulse broadening and higher-order dispersion and their implications for optical systems.

Chapter four introduces self-phase modulation and self steepening.

Chapter five describes optical solitons (including fundamental and higher order solitions), soliton lasers, and soliton-based communications systems.
(more…)

Panos Macheras, Athanassios Iliadis “Modeling in Biopharmaceutics, Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics:
Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Approaches”
Springer | 2005-12-15 | ISBN: 0387281789 | 442 pages | PDF | 3,3 MB (more…)