Spatial Hysteresis and Optical Patterns
By: by Nikolay N. Rosanov
Series: Springer Series in Synergetics; Springer Series in Synergetics
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9783642076725; 9783662047927
Subjects: Optical pattern recognition; Physics
Description: 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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Table of contents: title: Introduction to Physics of Distributed Bistable Systems; title: Increasing Absorption Bistability; title: Hybrid Bistable Devices; title: Driven Nonlinear Interferometers; title: Nonlinear Radiation Reflection; title: Bistable Laser Schemes; title: Conclusion: Comparing Different Types of Optical Patterns; title: Paraxial and Nonparaxial Radiation Propagation; title: Constitutive Equations for Medium Nonlinear Polarization; title: Transverse Structures and Digital Optical Computing; title: Bistability of Quantum Anharmonic Oscillator; title: Transverse Effects for Squeezed States of Light; title: References; title: Index.