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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Selected Topics in Electromagnetic Wave Propagation | |
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| Maxwell's Equations and the Fundamental Fields | |
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| Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Sourceless Media | |
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| Power Transmission | |
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| Group Velocity | |
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| Reflection and Transmission of Waves at Plane Interfaces | |
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| Material Resonances and Their Effects on Wave Propagation | |
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| Problems | |
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| References | |
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| Symmetric Dielectric Slab Waveguides | |
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| Ray Analysis of the Slab Waveguides | |
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| Field Analysis of the Slab Waveguides | |
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| Solutions of the Eigenvalue Equations | |
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| Power Transmission and Confinement | |
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| Leaky Waves | |
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| Radiation Modes | |
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| Wave Propagation in Curved Slab Waveguides | |
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| Problems | |
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| References | |
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| Weakly-Guiding Fibers with Step Index Profiles | |
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| Rays and Fields in the Step Index Fiber | |
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| Field Analysis of the Weakly-Guiding Fiber | |
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| Eigenvalue Equation for LP Modes | |
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| LP Mode Characteristics | |
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| Single Mode Fiber Parameters | |
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| Derivation of the General Step Index Fiber Modes | |
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| Problems | |
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| References | |
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| Loss Mechanisms in Silica Fiber | |
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| Basic Loss Effects in Transmission | |
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| Fabrication of Silica Fibers | |
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| Intrinsic Loss | |
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| Extrinsic Loss | |
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| Bending Loss | |
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| Source-to-Fiber Coupling | |
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| Problems | |
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| References | |
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| Dispersion | |
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| Pulse Propagation in Media Possessing Quadratic Dispersion | |
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| Material Dispersion | |
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| Dispersion in Optical Fiber | |
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| Chromatic Dispersion Compensation | |
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| Polarization Dispersion | |
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| System Considerations and Dispersion Measurement | |
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| Problems | |
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| References | |
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| Special Purpose Index Profiles | |
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| Multimode Graded Index Fiber | |
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| Special Index Profile Optimization | |
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| Problems | |
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| References | |
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| Nonlinear Effects in Fibers I: Non-Resonant Processes | |
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| Nonlinear Optics Fundamentals | |
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| Nonlinear Phase Modulation on Pulses | |
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| The Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation | |
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| Additional Non-Resonant Processes | |
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| Problems | |
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| References | |
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| Nonlinear Effects in Fibers II: Resonant Processes and Amplification | |
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| Raman Scattering | |
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| Stimulated Brillouin Scattering | |
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| Rare-Earth-Doped Fiber Amplifiers | |
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| Problems | |
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| References | |
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| Properties of Bessel Functions | |
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| Notation | |
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| Index | |