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The book is devoted to the study of optical patterns and to optical bistability and hysteresis. In its methodology it is at the intersection of investigations in synergetics and modern nonlinear optics. This first monograph on optical patterns addresses researchers as well as students. The author studies the rich class of spatially distributed bistable optical systems, and especially dissipative optical solitons which resemble molecules, crystals or biological objects when combined. The author studies further the inhomogeneities of bistable systems and gives a consistent description of spatial hysteresis. Further topics include diffractive mechanisms for coupling, three-dimensional optical solitons, quantum aspects and optical information processing, lasers with a saturable absorber, non-linear waveguides and fibers with nonlinear gain or losses.
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"This book is very well written and contains many important and new original results that certainly play an important role in today’s nonlinear optics." (Physicalia, 25/3, 2003)
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction to the Physics of Distributed Bistable Systems
Pages 1-15
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Increasing Absorption Bistability
Pages 17-68
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Hybrid Bistable Devices
Pages 69-81
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Driven Nonlinear Interferometers
Pages 83-176
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Nonlinear Radiation Reflection
Pages 177-205
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Spatial Hysteresis and Optical Patterns
- Authors
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- Nikolay N. Rosanov
- Series Title
- Springer Series in Synergetics
- Copyright
- 2002
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-662-04792-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-662-04792-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-540-42793-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-07672-5
- Series ISSN
- 0172-7389
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 308
- Topics
