Tutorials
Fiber Optics Tutorials
Here we offer some comprehensive physics-based tutorials on fiber optics, all authored by Dr. Paschotta, the founder and managing director of RP Photonics:
- Passive Fiber Optics
- Fiber Amplifiers
- Modeling of Fiber Amplifiers and Lasers
- Modeling of Pulse Amplification
For more information on fiber optics, see also
- the Field Guide on Fiber Optics
- our RP Photonics Encyclopedia
- case studies with RP Fiber Power (see below)
Other Tutorials
If you are interested in laser development and physical modeling, you should see our presentation on the 'transparent laser'.
If you like our tutorials, you may also be interested in our newsletters: The Photonics Spotlight and the RP Photonics Software News.
Case Studies
We have a lot of case studies for our simulation and design software – some examples:
- RP Fiber Power:
- Erbium-doped fiber amplifier for a long-wavelength signal
- ASE turns out to be a limiting factor, requiring a dual-stage amplifier design.
- Erbium-doped fiber amplifier for rectangular nanosecond pulses
- Specifically, we deal with deformations of the pulse shape due to gain saturation, which we can avoid by pre-distorting the input pulses.
- Erbium-doped fiber amplifier for multiple signals
- Here, we optimize an amplifier for equal output powers of signals spanning a substantial wavelength range. There is a trade-off between power efficiency and noise performance.
- calculation of fiber modes
- higher-order solitons
- supercontinuum generation
- nonlinear self-focusing
- light in a tapered fiber
- fiber coupler
- erbium-doped fiber amplifier
- thulium-doped blue upconversion laser
- parabolic pulses in a fiber amplifier
- actively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser
- regenerative amplifier
- chirped-pulse amplifier system
- RP Resonator:
- RP ProPulse:
- RP Coating:
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