Overview
- Very comprehensive book on future all-optics information processing
- Covers the related major developments in optics and materials science
- Innovative new concepts, also for optical nanodevices
- Both a reference work for researchers and a study text for graduate students
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences (SSOS, volume 150)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Nonlinear Effects in Reduced-Dimensional Structures: From Wave Guide Arrays to Slow Light
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Nonlinear Effects in Multidimensional Lattices: Solitons and Light Localization
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Periodic Structures for Matter Waves: From Lattices to Ratchets
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Metamaterials: From Linear to Nonlinear Features
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nonlinearities in Periodic Structures and Metamaterials
Editors: Cornelia Denz, Sergej Flach, Yuri S. Kivshar
Series Title: Springer Series in Optical Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02066-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-02065-0Published: 13 November 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-26133-6Published: 04 May 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-02066-7Published: 11 March 2010
Series ISSN: 0342-4111
Series E-ISSN: 1556-1534
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 292
Number of Illustrations: 102 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
Topics: Classical Electrodynamics, Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Optical and Electronic Materials