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Advanced Photonics With Second-Order Optically Nonlinear Processes

Name: Advanced Photonics With Second-Order Optically Nonlinear Processes
Author: A.D. Boardman, L. Pavlov, S. Tanev
ISBN: 9780792353157

by A.D. Boardman, L. Pavlov, S. Tanev

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The community of research workers interested in solitons and signal processing came to realise that there is more to the behaviour of crystals displaying second-order nonlinearity than creating second-harmonic sources. It turns out that there are also soliton - or, more correctly, solitary wave - solutions to the coupled equations which involve a balance between the fundamental wave and the co-propagating second-harmonic wave. Second-order nonlinearity, then, is attracting a lot of interest, both in the more traditional phase-matching requirements needed to generate second-harmonic waves very efficiently - see the drive to the blue laser or its alternatives - and in the new area of solitary waves. The present book is devoted to three main themes: solitons, quasi-phase matching, frequency conversion and parametric interactions. The material has been written by distinguished contributors and the range of topics, together with the emphasis put on them, gives the reader a depth of understanding firmly rooted in the basic material.

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Contains 42 contributions comprising the proceedings of an international conference focusing on solitons, quasi-phase matching, frequency conversion, and parametric interactions as themes of primary importance in the field. Topics addressed include plane and guided wave effects and devices via quadratic cascading; full vector theory of fundamental and second-harmonic cw waves; quadratic ring-shaped solitary waves; parametric coupled solitons with high-order dispersion; pulsed beam self-focusing; slow and immobile solitons in quadratic media; frequency conversion with semiconductor heterostructures; modes of TM field in nonlinear Kerr media; coherent and incoherent optical processes and phase sensitive adiabatic states; and thin layer modification of P.V.D.F. with copper sulfide. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.