Nonlinearities in Periodic Structures and Metamaterials

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642261337
• ISBN13: 9783642261336
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"