Nonlinear Optical Materials and Devices for Applications in Information Technology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Fundamentals of Nonlinear Optics

   • Christos Flytzanis

   Pages 1-74

3. Nonlinear Phenomena in Optical Fibres

   • N. J. Doran

   Pages 75-102

4. Giant Optical Nonlinearities in Nematic Liquid Crystals

   • E. Santamato

   Pages 103-139

5. Photo-Induced Refractive Index Changes in Bulk Semiconductors

   • H. M. Van Driel

   Pages 141-181

6. Nonlinear Optical Effects in Active Semiconductor Devices

   • Paolo Spano

   Pages 183-205

7. Electron States in Biased Heterostructures

   • R. Ferreira, G. Bastard

   Pages 207-254

8. Quantum Well Optical Switching Devices

   • David A. B. Miller

   Pages 255-284

9. Integrated Optics and All-Optical Waveguide Switching

   • George Stegeman, Patrick Likamwa

   Pages 285-320

10. Digital Optical Computing

    • B. S. Wherrett

    Pages 321-361

11. Back Matter

    Pages 363-367

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Nonlinear Optical Materials and Devices for Applications in Information Technology takes the reader from fundamental interactions of laser light in materials to the latest developments of digital optical information processing. The book emphasises nonlinear optical interactions in bulk and low-dimensional semiconductors, liquid crystals and optical fibres. After establishing the basic laser--material interactions in these materials, it goes on to assess applications in soliton propagation, integrated optics, smart pixel arrays and digital optical computing.

• Soliton
• crystal
• information processing
• integrated optics
• laser
• liquid
• liquid crystals
• nonlinear optics
• optical computing
• optics
• refractive index
• semiconductor
• semiconductors

• Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, UK

  A. Miller

• Defence Research Agency, Malvern, UK

  K. R. Welford

• Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome, Italy

  B. Daino

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