Nonlinear Fiber Optics

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the nonlinear optical effects occurring inside optical fibers. This third edition retains most of the material that appeared in the first edition, with the exception of Chapter 6, which is now devoted to the polarization effects relevant for light propagation in optical fibers.

Importance of Topic

Internet information (which is doubling every six months) travels through optical fibers. Today, optical fibers are being installed where a single fiber has the ability to carry up to 200 times as much information as much as 200 times faster than was possible just five years ago. The communication industry is at the onset of new expansion that centers on optical fibers.

Why This Title

The contents include many important topics such as self and cross-phase modulation, stimulated Raman and Brillouin Scattering, four-wave mixing, modulation instability, and optical solutions. A proper understanding of the topics covered in this book is essential for scientists and engineers in various aspects of lightwave technology. The third edition of Nonlinear Fiber Optics continues to be the authoritative text providing the reader with a thorough treatment of the fundamentals necessary to understand this fast moving technology.

Who Is This For

This book can be used as a senior or graduate level textbook on fiber optics. It can be used as a reference book by scientists, engineers, and researchers in the field of fiber optics and optical communications.

Govind P. Agrawal was born on July 24, 1951 in the town of Kashipur of the Nainital district in U.P. He received his B.Sc. degree from the University of Lucknow in 1969 with honors. He was awarded a gold medal for achieving the top position in the university. Govind joined the Indian Institute of Technology at New Delhi in 1969 and received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in 1971 and 1974, respectively.After holding positions at the Ecole Polytechnique (France), the City University of New York, and the Laser company, Quantel, Orsay, France, Dr. Agrawal joined in 1981 the technical staff of the world-famous AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, N.J., USA, where he worked on problems related to the development of semiconductor lasers and fiber-optic communication systems. He joined in 1989 the faculty of the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester where he is a Professor of Optics. His research interests focus on quantum electronics, nonlinear optics, and optical communications. In particular, he has contributed signnificantly to the fields of semiconductor lasers, nonlinear fiber optics, and optical communications. He is an author or coauthor of more than 250 research papers, several book chapters and review articles, and four books entitled "Semiconductor Lasers" (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 2nd ed. 1993), "Nonlinear Fiber Optics" (Academic Press, 3rd ed. 2001), "Fiber-Optic Communication Systems" (Wiley, 2nd ed. 1997), and "Applications of Nonlinear Fiber Optics" (Academic Press, 2001). He has also edited the books "Contemporary Nonlinear Optics" (Academic Press, 1992) and "Semiconductor Lasers: Past, Present and Future" (AIP Press, 1995). The books authored by Dr. Agrawal have influenced an entire generation of scientists. Several of them have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Greek, and Russian.