| Advanced Photonics with Second-Order Optically Nonlinear Processes Contributor(s): Boardman, A. D. (Editor), Tanev, S. (Editor), Pavlov, L. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0792353153 ISBN-13: 9780792353157 Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - General |
| Dewey: 621.36 |
| LCCN: 98031124 |
| Series: NATO Science Series. Partnership Sub-Series 3, High Technolo |
| Physical Information: 496 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The community of research workers interested in solitons and signal processing came to realize 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. |