History of Polymer Optical Fibers / Chapter 1: |
Introduction / 1.1: |
Using Light for Telecommunications / 1.2: |
Glass Fibers / 1.3: |
Optical Imaging / 1.3.1: |
Multimode Fibers / 1.3.2: |
Small Core Fibers / 1.3.3: |
Polymer Fibers / 1.4: |
Early History of Polymer Fibers / 1.4.1: |
Gradient-Index Fibers / 1.4.2: |
Single-Mode Polymer Fibers / 1.4.4: |
Electrooptic Fiber Devices / 1.4.5: |
Fiber Amplifiers and Lasers / 1.4.6: |
Dual-Core Couplers and Devices / 1.4.7: |
The Future / 1.5: |
Light Propagation in a Fiber Waveguide / Chapter 2: |
The Ray Picture of a Waveguide / 2.1: |
The Wave Picture of a Waveguide / 2.1.2: |
Rays and Waves / 2.1.2.1: |
Solving Maxwell's Wave Equation / 2.1.2.2: |
Bound Modes of Step-Index Fibers / 2.2: |
Field Relations / 2.2.1: |
Longitudinal Fields / 2.2.2: |
Bound Modes / 2.2.3: |
HE and EH Modes / 2.2.4: |
TE and TM Modes / 2.2.5: |
Multimode Waveguides / 2.3: |
Ray Propagation in a Graded-Index Medium / 2.4: |
Transit Time / 2.4.1: |
Homogeneous Step-Index Profile / 2.4.2: |
Ray Picture / 2.4.2.1: |
Ideal Index Profile-The Power Law Profile / 2.4.3: |
Hyperbolic Secant Profile / 2.4.3.1: |
Directional Couplers / 2.5: |
Nonlinear Directional Couplers / 2.5.1: |
Conclusion / 2.6: |
Acknowledgments / 2.7: |
Fabricating Fibers / Chapter 3: |
Making Polymer Fibers by Extrusion / 3.1: |
Continuous Extrusion / 3.1.1: |
Batch Extrusion / 3.1.2: |
Making Polymer Fiber by Drawing a Preform / 3.2: |
Making Doped Polymers / 3.2.1: |
Dissolving Polymers / 3.2.1.1: |
Polymerization with Dopants / 3.2.1.2: |
Making a Core Preform / 3.2.2: |
Making Core Fibers by Drawing / 3.2.3: |
Making Core/Cladding Preforms / 3.2.4: |
Dry Processing / 3.2.4.1: |
Wet Processing / 3.2.4.2: |
Birefringence of Drawn Fibers / 3.3: |
Mechanical Properties of Fibers / 3.4: |
Theory of Refractive Index and Loss / Chapter 4: |
Refractive Index / 4.1: |
Isotropic Polymer / 4.1.1: |
Birefringent Polymers / 4.1.2: |
Relationship Between Number and Weight Percent / 4.1.3: |
Mixing Polymers to Control the Refractive Index / 4.1.4: |
Optical Loss / 4.2: |
Absorbance / 4.2.1: |
Linear Susceptibility / 4.2.2: |
Bending Loss / 4.3: |
Multimode Fiber / 4.3.1: |
Single-Mode Fiber / 4.3.2: |
Rayleigh Scattering / 4.3.2.1: |
Microbending Loss / 4.3.3: |
Dispersion / 4.4: |
The Harmonic Oscillator / 4.4.1: |
A Practical Example / 4.5: |
Problem / 4.5.1: |
Solution / 4.5.2: |
Polarization / 4.6: |
The Poincare Sphere / 4.6.1: |
Some Examples of Polarization States / 4.6.2: |
Characterization Techniques and Properties / Chapter 5: |
Interphako / 5.1: |
One-Dimensional Slab / 5.1.1.1: |
Cylindrical Sample / 5.1.1.2: |
Beam Deflection Technique / 5.1.2: |
DDM Theory / 5.1.2.1: |
DDM Experiment / 5.1.2.2: |
Examples of Measured Refractive Index Profiles / 5.1.2.3: |
Refracted Near-Field Technique / 5.1.3: |
Theory / 5.1.3.1: |
Experimental Results / 5.1.3.3: |
Fresnel Reflection Technique / 5.1.4: |
Other Refractive Index Measurement Techniques / 5.1.5: |
Measurements on Gradient-Index Fibers / 5.1.6: |
Summary of Refractive Index Measurements / 5.1.7: |
Cutback Technique / 5.2: |
Quick Cutback Method / 5.2.1.1: |
Accurate Cutback Method / 5.2.1.2: |
Transverse Scattering Loss Measurement / 5.2.2: |
The Eyeball Technique / 5.2.3: |
Photothermal Deflection / 5.2.4: |
Side-Illuminated Fluorescence / 5.2.5: |
Numerical Aperture / 5.2.5.1: |
Input Numerical Aperture Measurements / 5.3.1: |
Objective Lens Coupling / 5.3.1.1: |
Ray Angle Method / 5.3.1.2: |
Output Numerical Aperture / 5.3.2: |
Bandwidth / 5.4: |
Modal Dispersion - Ray Picture / 5.4.1: |
Material Dispersion / 5.4.2: |
Numerical Example of Material Dispersion / 5.4.2.1: |
Modal Dispersion - Wave Picture / 5.4.3: |
Measurement Techniques / 5.4.4: |
Frequency Domain Measurements / 5.4.4.1: |
Time Domain Experiments / 5.4.4.2: |
Time Domain Measurements Applied Graded-Index Polymer Fibers / 5.4.4.3: |
Mode Mixing in Polymer Fibers / 5.4.4.4: |
Transmission, Light Sources, and Amplifiers / Chapter 6: |
Transmission / 6.1: |
Loss Conventions / 6.1.1: |
Fiber Materials / 6.1.2: |
Displays / 6.2: |
Optical Amplification and Lasing / 6.3: |
Principles of Stimulated Emission / 6.3.1: |
Fluorescence / 6.3.2: |
Decay and Recovery of Fluorescence / 6.3.2.1: |
Amplified Spontaneous Emission / 6.3.3: |
Gain / 6.3.3.1: |
Reversible Degradation in ASE / 6.3.3.2: |
ASE in Fibers / 6.3.3.3: |
Polymer Optical Fiber Amplifiers / 6.3.4: |
Laser Dyes / 6.3.4.1: |
Lanthanide Complexes / 6.3.4.2: |
Applications / 6.3.5: |
Optical Switching / Chapter 7: |
Electrooptic Switching / 7.1: |
Electrooptic Modulation / 7.1.1: |
Theory of Electrooptic Modulation in a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer / 7.1.1.1: |
Experimental Technique to Measure Electrooptic Coefficients / 7.1.1.2: |
Electrooptic Modulation in a Polymer Optical Fiber / 7.1.1.3: |
Electrooptic Devices / 7.1.2: |
All-Optical Switching / 7.2: |
Intensity-Dependent Phase Shift in Polymer Waveguide and Fibers / 7.2.1: |
Optical Devices in Polymer Fibers / 7.2.3: |
Sagnac Device / 7.2.3.1: |
Dual Core Polymer Fiber Switch / 7.2.3.2: |
Optical Bistability and Multistability / 7.2.4: |
Multistability of a Fabry-Perot Interferometer with End Reflectors / 7.2.4.1: |
Multistability of a Fabry-Perot Interferometer due to Fresnel Reflections / 7.2.4.2: |
Comparison of the Fresnel and Fabry-Perot Results / 7.2.4.3: |
Graphical Solution to Transcendental Equations / 7.2.4.4: |
Structured Fibers and Specialty Applications / Chapter 8: |
Bragg Gratings / 8.1: |
The Bragg Condition, K = 2[Beta] / 8.1.1: |
Bragg Gratings in Polymer Fibers / 8.1.3: |
Spectrometer / 8.1.4: |
Wavelength Division Multiplexing and Demultiplexing / 8.1.4.2: |
Advanced Structured Fibers / 8.2: |
Imaging Fibers / 8.2.1: |
Capillary Tubes / 8.2.2: |
Photonic Crystal Fibers / 8.2.3: |
Two Parallel Waveguides / 8.2.3.1: |
Infinite Number of Parallel Waveguides / 8.2.3.2: |
Holey Fiber / 8.2.3.3: |
Photorefraction / 8.3: |
Two-Beam Coupling / 8.3.1: |
Real-Time Holography in a Polymer Fiber / 8.3.2: |
Phase Conjugation in a Polymer Fiber / 8.3.3: |
Stress and Temperature Sensors / 8.4: |
Discrete Sensors / 8.4.1: |
Distributed Sensors / 8.4.2: |
Chemical Sensors / 8.5: |
Single-Agent Sensors / 8.5.1: |
Artificial Nose / 8.5.2: |
Appendix-Coupled Wave Equation / 8.6: |
Smart Fibers and Materials / Chapter 9: |
Smart Materials / 9.1: |
Photostriction / 9.1.1: |
Smart Structures / 9.1.3: |
Photomechanical Effects / 9.2: |
Theory of Strain / 9.2.1: |
Nonlocal Response / 9.2.1.2: |
Mechanisms / 9.2.2: |
Photothermal Heating / 9.2.2.1: |
Photo-Isomerization / 9.2.2.2: |
Electrostriction / 9.2.2.3: |
Molecular Reorientation / 9.2.2.4: |
Electron Cloud Deformation / 9.2.2.5: |
Experimental Examples / 9.2.3: |
The First Demonstration of an All-Optical Photomechanical System - Nano-Stabilization / 9.2.3.1: |
Mesoscale Photomechanical Devices and Multistability / 9.2.3.2: |
Optical Tunable Filter and All-Optical Switching / 9.2.3.3: |
Stabilizing a Sheet with an MPU / 9.2.3.4: |
Transverse Photomechanical Actuation / 9.2.3.5: |
The Future of Smart Photonic Materials / 9.3: |
Making a Series of MPUs in a Single Fiber / 9.3.1: |
The Two-MPU System / 9.3.3: |
CASE I: Photomechanical MPU #1; Passive MPU #2; Light Source with Wavelengths [lambda subscript 1] and [lambda subscript 2] / 9.3.3.1: |
Case II: Passive MPU #1; Photomechanical MPU #2; Light Source with Wavelength [lambda] / 9.3.3.2: |
Case III: Photomechanical MPU #1 and MPU #2; Light Source with Wavelength [lambda] / 9.3.3.3: |
Smart Threads and Fabrics / 9.3.4: |
Transverse Actuation / 9.3.5: |
Crack Formation Sensing and Prevention / 9.3.6: |
Noise Reduction / 9.3.7: |
Bibliography / 9.3.8: |
Index |
History of Polymer Optical Fibers / Chapter 1: |
Introduction / 1.1: |
Using Light for Telecommunications / 1.2: |
Glass Fibers / 1.3: |
Optical Imaging / 1.3.1: |
Multimode Fibers / 1.3.2: |