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Nonlinearities in Periodic Structures and Metamaterials
Springer Series in Optical Sciences 150
ISBN/EAN: 9783642020650
Umbreit-Nr.: 1288205
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xx, 292 S., 102 s/w Illustr., 30 farbige Illustr.,
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 13.11.2009
Auflage: 1/2009
- Zusatztext
- InhaltsangabeIntroduction.- General Theory.- Waveguide Arrays.- Nonlinear Optics in Photonic Crystals.- Optically-Induced Photonic Lattices.- Matter-Wave Solitons in Optical Lattices.- Novel Periodic Materials
- Kurztext
- Optical information processing of the future is associated with a new generation of compact nanoscale optical devices operating entirely with light. Moreover, adaptive features such as self-guiding, reconfiguration and switching become more and more important. Nonlinear devices offer an enormous potential for these applications. Consequently, innovative concepts for all-optical communication and information technologies based on nonlinear effects in photonic-crystal physics and nanoscale devices as metamaterials are of high interest. This book focuses on nonlinear optical phenomena in periodic media, such as photonic crystals, optically-induced, adaptive lattices, atomic lattices or metamaterials. The main purpose is to describe and overview new physical phenomena that result from the interplay between nonlinearities and structural periodicities and is a guide to actual and future developments for the expert reader in optical information processing, as well as in the physics of cold atoms in optical lattices.