Publisher's Synopsis
Progress in fiber optics made possible the manufacture of highly transparent silica optical fibers which were originally intended to be utilized only as a passive light transmission medium, mainly for optical fiber communication systems. However, silica glass fibers were found to be a useful nonlinear optical medium resulting in the emergence of a new important development in quantum electronics - nonlinear fiber optics. This review focuses on the principle nonlinear optical effects in fibers and their most useful application. The authors suggest that nonlinear fiber optics has not only revived the old nonlinear-optical laser radiation conversion techniques and indicated new ones, but has also stimulated progress in the theoretical studies of nonlinear optics. Anyone interested in the growing experimental and theoretical studies in the field should find this book a useful source of information.
