Chapter 2: Part II
Optical Fiber Transmission
Planar waveguide analogy
Guided and radiation modes
Mode weight factor vs mode index
Fiber as a linear system
Light propagation in free space and in optical fibers
Pulse propagation in free space
Pulse propagation in fiber with no dispersion
Pulse propagation in a dispersive fiber
Optical field distribution in the presence of dispersion
A Gaussian pulse
Power and frequency deviations vs time for an unchirped Gaussian
pulse
Rayleigh scattering in fibers
A fiber-optic link
Impact of third order dispersion
A fiber-optic link with dispersion compensating fiber
A simple fiber-optic system
A fiber-optic system with optical dispersion compensation
The evolution of pulse width in an optical fiber