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As the field grew, Agrawal decided to split this text off from his Nonlinear Fiber Optics, which is more concerned with the discipline's fundamentals. This edition is intended for senior undergraduates, graduate students, engineers and technicians in the telecommunications industry, and scientists working with fiber optics and optical communications. It covers the building blocks of light-wave technology - fiber-based gratings, couplers, and interferometers - as well as amplifiers and lasers made using rare-earth-doped fibers; pulse-compression techniques; fiber-optic communication systems; and soliton-based transmission schemes.
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Applications of Nonlinear Fiber Optics OPTICS AND PHOTONICS (Formerly Quantum Electronics) Series Editors PAUL L. KELLEY Tufts University Medford, Massachusetts IVAN P. KAMINOW Lucent Technologies Holmdel, New Jersey GOVIND P. AGRAWAL University of Rochester Rochester, New York Recently Published Books in the Series: Jean-Claude Diels and Wolfgang Rudolph, Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena: Fundamentals, Techniques, and Applications on a Femtosecond Time Scale Eli Kapon, editor, Semiconductor Lasers I: Fundamentals Eli Kapon, editor, Semiconductor Lasers II: Materials and Structures P. C. Becker, N. A. Olsson, and J. R. Simpson, Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers: Fundamentals and Technology Raman Kashyap, Fiber Bragg Gratings Katsunari Okamoto, Fundamentals of Optical Waveguides Govind P. Agrawal, Nonlinear Fiber Optics, Third Edition A complete list of titles in this series appears at the end of this volume. Applications of Nonlinear Fiber Optics GOVIND P. AGRAWAL The Institute of Optics University of Rochester OPTICS AND PHOTONICS San Diego San Francisco New York Boston London Sydney Tokyo This book is printed on acid-free paper. Copyright c 2001