Nonlinear Optics in Telecommunications

• 1. Introduction.- I. Fundamentals of Linear and Nonlinear Optics.- 2. Overview of Linear Optical Effects.- 3. Optical Telecommunications.- 4. Nonlinear Effects.- II. Nonlinear Effects in Optical Waveguides.- 5. The Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation.- 6. Self- and Cross-Phase Modulation.- 7. Four-Wave-Mixing (FWM).- 8. Intrachannel Nonlinear Effects.- 9. Solitons.- 10. Raman Scattering.- 11. Brillouin Scattering.- III. Applications of Nonlinear Effects in Telecommunications.- 12. Optical Signal Processing.- 13. Nonlinear Lasers and Amplifiers.- 14. Nonlinear Optical Phase Conjugation.- A. Appendices.- A.1 div, grad, curl, rot.- A.2 The Gaussian Pulse.- A.3 Logarithmical Units.- References.

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