Nonlinear Optics in Signal Processing

✍ Scribed by Alan Miller (auth.), Robert W. Eason, Alan Miller (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 437
• Series: Engineering Aspects of Lasers Series 49
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Nonlinear Optics in Signal Processing covers the applications of nonlinear optics to optical processing in a range of areas including switching, computing, and telecommunications.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-17
Nonlinearities in organic solids....Pages 18-65
Semiconductors....Pages 66-99
The Photorefractive Effect....Pages 100-144
Optical bistability....Pages 145-189
Optical processing using phase conjugation....Pages 190-228
Architectures for Optical Neural Networks....Pages 229-285
Third-order nonlinear guided-wave optical devices....Pages 286-321
Nonlinearity in optical fibre communications....Pages 322-362
Ultrashort pulses for nonlinear optical techniques....Pages 363-414
Back Matter....Pages 415-421

✦ Subjects

Electrical Engineering;Physics, general;Optical and Electronic Materials