Nonlinear Optical Materials and Devices for Applications in Information Technology
By: edited by A. Miller, K. R. Welford, B. Daino
Contributors: Welford, K. R.; Daino, B.
Series: NATO ASI Series, Series E: Applied Sciences -- 289; NATO ASI Series, Series E: Applied Sciences -- 289
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9789048145447; 9789401724463
Subjects: Surfaces (Physics); Physics; Computer engineering; Computer science
Other titles: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Erice, Sicily, Italy, July 13--26, 1993
Description: 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.
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