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Electro-optic Photonic Circuits

From Linear and Nonlinear Waves in Nanodisordered Photorefractive Ferroelectrics

  • Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
  • Provides creative solutions and set-ups for using Bessel beam illumination in both confocal and light-sheet microscopy
  • Includes the first evidence of Super-crystals, ordered structures of polar domains that naturally arise from composite ferroelectrics
  • Sheds new light on the phenomenon of quantum entanglement

Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Introduction to Microscopy

    • Giuseppe Di Domenico
    Pages 19-31
  3. Super-Crystals in Composite Ferroelectrics

    • Giuseppe Di Domenico
    Pages 71-91
  4. Intrinsic Negative-Mass from Nonlinearity

    • Giuseppe Di Domenico
    Pages 93-105
  5. Conclusion

    • Giuseppe Di Domenico
    Pages 123-124
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 125-136

About this book

This book reports new findings in the fields of nonlinear optics, quantum optics and optical microscopy. It presents the first experimental device able to transform an input Gaussian beam into a non-diffracting Bessel-like beam. The modulation mechanism, i.e. electro-optic effect, allows the device to be fast, miniaturizable and integrable into solid state arrays. Also presented is an extensive study of the superposition of Bessel beams and their propagation in turbid media, with the aim of realizing  field that is both localized and non-diffracting. These findings have been implemented in a light-sheet microscope to improve the optical sectioning. From a more theoretical point of view this work also tackles the problem of whether and how a single particle is able to entangle two distant systems. The results obtained introduce fundamental limitations on the use of linear optics for quantum technology. Other chapters are dedicated to a number of experiments carried out on disordered ferroelectrics including negative intrinsic mass dynamics, ferroelectric supercrystals, rogue wave dynamics driven by enhanced disorder and first evidence of spatial optical turbulence. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Giuseppe Di Domenico

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Electro-optic Photonic Circuits

  • Book Subtitle: From Linear and Nonlinear Waves in Nanodisordered Photorefractive Ferroelectrics

  • Authors: Giuseppe Di Domenico

  • Series Title: Springer Theses

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23189-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23188-0Published: 17 July 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23191-0Published: 14 August 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23189-7Published: 03 July 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2190-5053

  • Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 136

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Quantum Optics, Quantum Physics, Solid State Physics, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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