Supercontinuum Generation in Specialty Optical Fibers (Hardcover, 1)

1. Historical Development of Specialty Optical Fibers and Supercontinuum Generation 2. Introduction: Standard optical fibers to the photonic crystal fibers 3. Propagation Characteristics of the Optical Fibers 4. Theory of Supercontinuum Generation in Photonic Crystal Fibers 5. Photonic Crystal Fiber Technologies 6. Tapered Chalcogenide Optical Fiber for Coherent Mid-IR Supercontinuum Generation 7. Applications of the Supercontinuum Generation 8. Future perspectives of the Photonic Crystal Fibers