Edición de la obra Advanced Photonics with Second-Order Optically Nonlinear Processes
| Autor | A. D. Boardman |
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| Editorial | Springer Netherlands |
| Fecha de publicación | 1998 |
| Lugar | Dordrecht |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 486 |
| Formato | [electronic resource] / |
| ISBN-13 | 9780792353164, 9789400708501 |
| ISBN-10 | 0792353161, 9400708505 |
| OCLC | 851379920 |
| Serie | NATO Science Series, 3. High Technology -- 61 · NATO Science Series, 3. High Technology -- 61 |
| Número de Cutter | B662a |
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The community of research workers interested in solitons and signal processing came to realise 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. The present book is devoted to three main themes: solitons, quasi-phase matching, frequency conversion and parametric interactions. The material has been written by distinguished contributors and the range of topics, together with the emphasis put on them, gives the reader a depth of understanding firmly rooted in the basic material.