Nonlinear Surface Electromagnetic Phenomena

✍ Scribed by H.-E. PONATH and G.I. STEGEMAN (Eds.)

• Publisher: North Holland
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 656
• Series: Modern Problems in Condensed Matter Sciences 29
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In recent years the physics of electromagnetic surface phenomena has developed rapidly, evolving into technologies for communications and industry, such as fiber and integrated optics. The variety of phenomena based on electromagnetism at surfaces is rich and this book was written with the aim of summarizing the available knowledge in selected areas of the field.

The book contains reviews written by solid state and optical physicists on the nonlinear interaction of electromagnetic waves at and with surfaces and films. Both the physical phenomena and some potential applications are dealt with. Included are discussions of nonlinear wave mixing on films and surfaces, second harmonic generation in waveguides and at surfaces, nonlinear waves guided by dielectric and semiconductor surfaces and films, surface gratings formed by high energy laser beams, and reflection and transmission switching of strong beams onto nonlinear surfaces. Chapters on light scattering from surface excitations and magnetic order-disorder and orientational phase transitions complete this essential contribution to the modern optics literature

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Modern Problems in Condensed Matter Sciences
Page ii

Front Matter
Page iii

Copyright page
Page iv

Modern Problems in Condensed Matter Sciences
Pages v-vii

Preface to the Series
Page ix
A.A. Maradudin, V.M. Agranovich

Preface
Pages xi-xiii
H.-E. Ponath, G.I. Stegeman

Chapter 1 - Second-Order Nonlinear Guided Wave Interactions
Pages 1-71
W. SOHLER

Chapter 2 - Third-Order Nonlinear Electromagnetic TE and TM Guided Waves
Pages 73-287
A.D. BOARDMAN, P. EGAN, F. LEDERER, U. LANGBEIN, D. MIHALACHE

Chapter 3 - The Problem of Stability and Excitation of Nonlinear Surface Waves
Pages 289-321
N.N. AKHMEDIEV

Chapter 4 - Nonlinear Waves and Switching Effects at Nonlinear Interfaces
Pages 323-351
A.E. KAPLAN, P.W. SMITH, W.J. TOMLINSON

Chapter 5 - Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Effects at Surfaces and Interfaces
Pages 353-416
T.F. HEINZ

Chapter 6 - Nonlinear Surface Magnetoplasma Polaritons in Semiconductors
Pages 417-443
V. AMBRAZEVIČIENE, R. BRAZIS, A. KUNIGÈLIS

Chapter 7 - Light Scattering from Phonons and Spin Waves on Surfaces
Pages 445-496
F. NIZZOLI, D.L. MILLS

Chapter 8 - Surface Magnetic and Structural Phase Transitions
Pages 497-523
M.I. KAGANOV, A.P. LEVANYUK, S.A. MINYUKOV, A.V. CHUBUKOV

Chapter 9 - Laser-induced Surface Gratings
Pages 525-560
A.M. PROKHOROV, I.A. AVRUTSKY, P.V. BAZAKUTSA, V.A. SYCHUGOV, A.V. TISCHENKO

Chapter 10 - Laser-Induced Surface Polaritons and Optical Breakdown
Pages 561-609
A.M. BONCH-BRUEVICH, M.N. LIBENSON

Author Index
Pages 611-630

Subject Index
Pages 631-639

Cumulative Index, Volumes 1–29
Pages 641-654