Advanced Photonics with Second-Order Optically Nonlinear Processes : Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Advanced Photonics with Second-order Optically Nonlinear Processes Sozopol, Bulgaria September 24 - October 3, 1997 /

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 - so...

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Main Author: Boardman, A. D.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Pavlov, L., Tanev, S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1998.
Series:NATO Science Partnership Sub-Series: 3:. 61.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 486 pages)
ISBN:9789400708501 (electronic bk.)
9400708505 (electronic bk.)
ISSN:1388-6576 ;