Nonlinearities in Periodic Structures and Metamaterials
- Editore:
Springer-Verlag GmbH
- EAN:
9783642020650
- ISBN:
3642020658
- Pagine:
- 292
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Tedesco
Descrizione Nonlinearities in Periodic Structures and Metamaterials
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.
