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Overview of digital communications
Outline of topics in optics
Principles of nonlinear fiber optics
Simple model of the third-order
optical nonlinear susceptibility
Modes in step-index fibers
Derivation of the paraxial wave
equation in bulk media
For a detailed derivation
of the fiber paraxial wave equation, see Dr. Hollenbeck's
dissertation (warning --
file size is 15 MB)
Derivation of the paraxial wave equation in
optical fibers
Dispersion in optical fibers
Table of notation for fiberoptic
telecommunications
Stimulated Brillouin scattering in optical fibers
Stimulated Raman scattering in fiberoptic
telecommunications
and new results on stimulated Raman amplification
Self-phase modulation and cross-phase
modulation in optical fibers
Self-focusing in bulk media
Four-wave mixing in optical fibers
Quantum mechanics (background for
understanding optical nonlinearities of quantum systems)
Self-induced transparency
Lectures on optics
Numerical methods for nonlinear optics