Advanced Photonics with Second-Order Optically Nonlinear Processes
By: edited by A. D. Boardman, L. Pavlov, S. Tanev
Contributors: Pavlov, L.; Tanev, S.
Series: NATO Science Series, 3. High Technology -- 61; NATO Science Series, 3. High Technology -- 61
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9780792353164; 9789400708501
Subjects: Mathematics; Surfaces (Physics); Physics
Other titles: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Sozopol, Bulgaria, September 24-October 3, 1997
Description: The community of research workers interested in solitons and signal processing came to realise that there is more to the behaviour of crystals displaying second-order nonlinearity than creating second-harmonic sources. It turns out that there are also soliton - or, more correctly, solitary wave - solutions to the coupled equations which involve a balance between the fundamental wave and the co-propagating second-harmonic wave. Second-order nonlinearity, then, is attracting a lot of interest, both in the more traditional phase-matching requirements needed to generate second-harmonic waves very efficiently - see the drive to the blue laser or its alternatives - and in the new area of solitary waves. The present book is devoted to three main themes: solitons, quasi-phase matching, frequency conversion and parametric interactions. The material has been written by distinguished contributors and the range of topics, together with the emphasis put on them, gives the reader a depth of understanding firmly rooted in the basic material.
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