Nonlinear Optical Effects and Materials
By: edited by Peter Günter
Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences, 0342-4111 -- 72; Springer series in optical sciences -- 72.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9783540497134
Description: Nonlinear Optical Effects and Materials describes progress achieved in the field of nonlinear optics and nonlinear optical materials. Selected topics such as photorefractive materials, third-order nonlinear optical materials and organic nonlinear optical crystals, as well as electro-optic polymers are treated. Applications of photorefractive materials in optical memories, optical processing, and guided-wave nonlinear optics in photorefractive waveguides are described. As light will play a more and more dominant role as an information carrier, the review of existing and new materials given here makes this book quite a keystone in this area.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Third-Order Nonlinear Optics in Polar Materials; title: Second-Order Nonlinear Organic Materials: Recent Developments; title: The Photorefractive Effect in Inorganic and Organic Materials; title: Photorefractive Memories for Optical Processing; title: Second-Harmonic Generation in Ferroelectric Waveguides.