Nonlinear surface electromagnetic phenomena /

In recent years the physics of electromagnetic surface phenomena has developed rapidly, evolving into technologies for communications and industry, such as fiber and integrated optics. The variety of phenomena based on electromagnetism at surfaces is rich and this book was written with the aim of su...

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Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Ponath, H.-E, Stegeman, G. I.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : New York, NY, USA : North-Holland ; Sole distributors for the USA and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co., 1991.
Series:Modern problems in condensed matter sciences ; v. 29.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:In recent years the physics of electromagnetic surface phenomena has developed rapidly, evolving into technologies for communications and industry, such as fiber and integrated optics. The variety of phenomena based on electromagnetism at surfaces is rich and this book was written with the aim of summarizing the available knowledge in selected areas of the field. The book contains reviews written by solid state and optical physicists on the nonlinear interaction of electromagnetic waves at and with surfaces and films. Both the physical phenomena and some potential applications are dealt with. Included are discussions of nonlinear wave mixing on films and surfaces, second harmonic generation in waveguides and at surfaces, nonlinear waves guided by dielectric and semiconductor surfaces and films, surface gratings formed by high energy laser beams, and reflection and transmission switching of strong beams onto nonlinear surfaces. Chapters on light scattering from surface excitations and magnetic order-disorder and orientational phase transitions complete this essential contribution to the modern optics literature.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 654 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9780444600523
0444600523