RP Fiber Power – Simulation and Design Software
for Fiber Optics, Amplifiers and Fiber Lasers

Example Cases Described on Separate Pages

The following example cases are all related to the demo scripts delivered with the software. Note that for some of the asks one could also use the newer Power Forms.

A first set of examples illustrates the power of the mode solver and the numerical beam propagation:

• calculating fiber modes
• modes of a germanosilicate fiber, with calculation of dispersion
• launching light into a multimode fiber
• bend effects in a large mode area fiber
• nonlinear self-focusing
• light evolution for a misaligned input beam
• pump absorption in a double-clad fiber
• light in a tapered fiber
• fiber coupler
• mode coupling in a fiber Bragg grating
• actively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser (bulk laser system; dynamic simulation with wave propagation)
• stimulated Raman scattering in a multimode fiber

Further demo files show how to simulate fiber amplifiers and lasers (only steady-state calculations):

• erbium-doped fiber amplifier
• cladding-pumped high-power ytterbium-doped fiber laser
• thulium-doped blue upconversion laser
• ASE source with automatic spectral optimization

Here are some examples of dynamic simulations:

• pulse amplification in a fiber amplifier
• actively Q-switched fiber laser
• actively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser (bulk laser system)
• actively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser (bulk laser system; with wave propagation)
• passively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser (bulk laser system)

Next, there are demonstrations for simulating the propagation of ultrashort pulses:

• higher-order solitons
• soliton self-frequency shift
• parabolic pulses in a fiber amplifier
• stimulated Raman scattering in a fiber amplifier
• regenerative amplifier (bulk system)
• mode-locked fiber laser
• chirped-pulse amplifier system
• data transmission
• supercontinuum generation

Finally, a demonstration for generating output in other forms:

• reporting calculated results as web pages

Click on the links to get the details.

Even more demo files (in total more than 70) are delivered with the software. As a user, you can simply copy demo scripts and modify them according to your needs. However, you may also easily generate new scripts using the interactive forms.