Light propagation in gain media: optical amplifiers

1 Introduction
1．1 Maxwell’s equations
1．2 Permittivity of isotropic materials
1．3 Dispersion relations
1．4 Causality and its implications
1．5 Simple solutions of Maxwell’S equations
Refefences
2 Light propagation through dispersive dielectric slabs
2．1 State ofpolarization ofoptic~waves
2．2 Impedance and refractive index
2．3 Fresnel equ~ions
2．4 Propag~ion of optical pulses
2．5 Finite．difference time．domain(VDTD)method
2．6 Phase and group velocities
2．7 Pulse propagation through a dielectric slab
References
3 Interaction of light with genetic active media
3．1 Reflection of light from a gain medium
3．2 Surface—plasmon polaritons
3．3 Gain—assisted management of group velocity
3．4 Gain-assisted dispersion control
References
4 Optical Bloch equations
4 1 Thebraandket vectors
4．2 Density operator
4．3 Density-matrix equations for two-1evel atoms
4．4 Optical Bloch equations
4．5 Maxwell—Bloch equations
4．6 Numerical integration of Maxwell—Bloch equations
References
5 Fiber amplifiers
5．1 Erbium—doped fiber amplifiers
5．2 Amplifier gain and its bandwidth
5．3 Rate equationsforEDFAS
5．4 Amplification under CW conditions
5．5 Amplification of picosecond pulses
5．6 Autosolitons and similari幻ns
5．7 Amplification of femtosecond pulses
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6 Semiconductor optical amplifiers
6．1 Material aspects 0f SOAs
6．2 Carrier density and optical gain
6．3 Picosecond pulse amplification
6．4 Femtosecond pulse amplification
References
7 Ralnanamplifiers
7．1 Raman eflfect
7．2 Raman gain spectrum of optical fibers
7．3 Fiber Raman amplifiers
7．4 Silicon Raman amplifiers
Refefences
8 Optical parametric amplifiers
8．1 Physics behind parametric amplification
8．2 Phase—matching condition
8．3 Four-wave mixing in optical fibers
8．4 Three—wave mixing in birefringent crystals
8．5 Phase matching in birefringent fibers
References
9 Gain in optical metamaterialS
9．1 Classification ofmetamaterials
9．2 Schemes for lOSS compensation in metamaterials