Electro-optic Photonic Circuits: From Linear and Nonlinear Waves in Nanodisordered Photorefractive Ferroelectrics

✍ Scribed by Giuseppe Di Domenico

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 147
• Series: Springer Theses
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book reports new findings in the fields of nonlinear optics, quantum optics and optical microscopy. It presents the first experimental device able to transform an input Gaussian beam into a non-diffracting Bessel-like beam. The modulation mechanism, i.e. electro-optic effect, allows the device to be fast, miniaturizable and integrable into solid state arrays. Also presented is an extensive study of the superposition of Bessel beams and their propagation in turbid media, with the aim of realizing field that is both localized and non-diffracting. These findings have been implemented in a light-sheet microscope to improve the optical sectioning. From a more theoretical point of view this work also tackles the problem of whether and how a single particle is able to entangle two distant systems. The results obtained introduce fundamental limitations on the use of linear optics for quantum technology. Other chapters are dedicated to a number of experiments carried out on disordered ferroelectrics including negative intrinsic mass dynamics, ferroelectric supercrystals, rogue wave dynamics driven by enhanced disorder and first evidence of spatial optical turbulence.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xix
Introduction to Nonlinear Optics in Photorefractive Media (Giuseppe Di Domenico)....Pages 1-17
Introduction to Microscopy (Giuseppe Di Domenico)....Pages 19-31
Miniaturized Photogenerated Electro-optic Axicon Lens Gaussian-to-Bessel Beam Conversion (Giuseppe Di Domenico)....Pages 33-40
Diffraction-Free Light Droplets for Axially-Resolved Volume Imaging (Giuseppe Di Domenico)....Pages 41-49
Self-suppression of Bessel Beam Side Lobes for High-Contrast Light Sheet Microscopy (Giuseppe Di Domenico)....Pages 51-59
Microscopic Reversibility, Nonlinearity, and the Conditional Nature of Single Particle Entanglement (Giuseppe Di Domenico)....Pages 61-70
Super-Crystals in Composite Ferroelectrics (Giuseppe Di Domenico)....Pages 71-91
Intrinsic Negative-Mass from Nonlinearity (Giuseppe Di Domenico)....Pages 93-105
Rogue Waves: Transition to Turbulence and Control Through Spatial Incoherence (Giuseppe Di Domenico)....Pages 107-122
Conclusion (Giuseppe Di Domenico)....Pages 123-124
Back Matter ....Pages 125-136

✦ Subjects

Physics; Quantum Optics; Quantum Physics; Solid State Physics; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices