Editors:
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
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Inst. Angewandte Physik, Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
Cornelia Denz
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MPI für Physik Komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany
Sergej Flach
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Research School of Physical Sciences &, Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Yuri S. Kivshar
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