Supercontinuum Generation in Specialty Optical Fibers

This book focuses on the basic understanding of specialty optical fibers, their applications in mid-IR light generation, and cutting-edge research in the field. The book provides all the basic knowledge about specialty optical fibers and their characteristics, including dispersion, losses, propagation of modes, and so forth. Finally, the technologies based on optical fibers and their applications in all prospective areas of research are discussed. Features: This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in photonics, optics, physics, and photonic crystal fibers.