Springer Series in Optical Sciences

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

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.

Details

Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2009-11-13

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783642020650

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02066-7

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 292