Nonlinearities in Periodic Structures and Metamaterials

Herausgegeben:Denz, Cornelia; Flach, Sergej; Kivshar, Yuri S.

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Produktbeschreibung

Optical information processing of the future is associated with a new generation of compact nanoscale optical devices operating entirely with light. Moreover, adaptive features such as self-guiding, reconfiguration and switching become more and more important. Nonlinear devices offer an enormous potential for these applications. Consequently, innovative concepts for all-optical communication and information technologies based on nonlinear effects in photonic-crystal physics and nanoscale devices as metamaterials are of high interest.

This book focuses on nonlinear optical phenomena in periodic media, such as photonic crystals, optically-induced, adaptive lattices, atomic lattices or metamaterials. The main purpose is to describe and overview new physical phenomena that result from the interplay between nonlinearities and structural periodicities and is a guide to actual and future developments for the expert reader in optical information processing, as well as in the physics of cold atoms in optical lattices.

Produktdetails

• Springer Series in Optical Sciences 150
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-642-26133-6
• 2009
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9783642261336
• ISBN-10: 3642261337
• Artikelnr.: 34558817

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.- General Theory.- Waveguide Arrays.- Nonlinear Optics in Photonic Crystals.- Optically-Induced Photonic Lattices.- Matter-Wave Solitons in Optical Lattices.- Novel Periodic Materials