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

For more information on fiber optics, see also

• the Field Guide on Fiber Optics
• our RP Photonics Encyclopedia
• case studies with RP Fiber Power

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.

We have a lot of case studies for our simulation and design software:

• RP Fiber Power:
  for example 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:
  for example ring resonator, titanium–sapphire laser, achromatic lens
• RP ProPulse:
  active mode locking, passive mode locking, soliton mode-locked bulk laser, nonlinear pulse compression
• RP Coating:
  anti-reflection coatings, short-pass and long-pass filters, dichroic mirror, etalon with thermal effects, thin-film plate polarizer, rugate filter