Guided Wave Nonlinear Optics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Nonlinear Optics: past, present and future

   • N. Bloembergen

   Pages 1-9

3. Introduction to Nonlinear Guided Wave Optics

   • George I. Stegeman

   Pages 11-27

4. Squeezed States using Parametric Processes

   • E. Giacobino

   Pages 29-48

5. Second Order Nonlinear Optical Processes in KTiOPO4 Waveguides

   • J. D. Bierlein

   Pages 49-65

6. Optical Nonlinearities of Quantum Confined Metal and Semiconductor Crystallites in Glasses

   • C. Flytzanis

   Pages 67-74

7. Nonlinear Magnetooptics. The Photoinduced Faraday Rotation in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors

   • R. Frey, J. Frey, C. Meriaux, C. Flytzanis

   Pages 75-86

8. Organic Molecules for Guided Wave Quadratic and Cubic Optics

   • F. Kajzar

   Pages 87-111

9. Modeling of Guided Wave Devices

   • Ivo Montrosset, Paul M. Lambkin, Guido Perrone

   Pages 113-132

10. Nonlinear Frequency Conversion in Periodically-Poled Ferroelectric Waveguides

    • M. M. Fejer

    Pages 133-145

11. Second Harmonic Generation in “Cerenkov Configuration”

    • M. P. de Micheli

    Pages 147-168

12. Nd:MgO:LiNbO3 waveguide lasers

    • Eric Lallier

    Pages 169-185

13. Erbium-Doped LiNbO3 Waveguide Amplifiers and Lasers

    • H. Suche

    Pages 187-200

14. Optical Guided Waves, Linear and Nonlinear Surface Plasmons

    • A. D. Boardman, K. Booth, P. Egan

    Pages 201-230

15. GaAs/GaAlAs Multiple Quantum Well Nonlinear Guided Wave Devices

    • P. N. Robson

    Pages 231-256

16. Third Order Nonlinear Integrated Devices

    • Gaetano Assanto

    Pages 257-284

17. Third Order Nonlinear Integrated Optical Resonators

    • G. Vitrant

    Pages 285-303

18. Gap Solitons

    • J. E. Sipe

    Pages 305-318

19. Soliton beam propagation in nonlinear Kerr media

    • F. Reynaud, A. Barthelemy

    Pages 319-340

20. Bending and Break-Up of Light Beams by Nonlinear Interfaces: A Soliton-Based Equivalent Particle Approach

    • J. V. Moloney

    Pages 341-370

The object of this school, held at Cargese, Corsica (France) from August 12th to 24th 1991, was the presentation of the field of guided wave nonlinear optics in a comprehensive, coherent, and heuristic fashion. It seems appropriate that this school began with an historical introduction by Professor Nicolaas Bloembergen of Harvard, the acknowledged "father" of nonlinear optics, in general, and concluded with a round table discussion headed by Dr. Eric Spitz, the Scientific Director of a multinational electronics company interested in developing industrial applications of guided wave nonlinear optics. The lectures covered both the theoretical framework of the field and applications to basic scientific research, optical communications and technical instrumentation. Specific topics developed included materials for guided wave nonlinear optics, nonlinear interactions using integrated optical guides, nonlinear surface waves, solitons, fiber nonlinear optics, ultra-fast coupler switching as well as the related topic of fiber and integrated optical lasers and amplifiers. Lectures have also been devoted to squeezed states, chaos and strange attractors. The subjects covered by the school underlines one of the major ways in which this field has evolved over the past thirty some odd years. The path from the original experiments with materials requiring mega-watt power lasers to the recent developments in guided wave configurations using milliwatt power diode lasers is marked by the conjunction of ever improving fundamental scientific comprehension and continuing technological developments.

• Faraday rotation
• laser
• magnetooptics
• nonlinear optics
• optics
• semiconductor

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