Nonlinearities in Periodic Structures and Metamaterials

✍ Scribed by Detlef Kip, Milutin Stepić (auth.), Cornelia Denz, Sergej Flach, Yuri S. Kivshar (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 295
• Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences 150
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-18
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Nonlinear Effects in One-Dimensional Photonic Lattices....Pages 3-19
Nonlinear Optical Waves in Liquid Crystalline Lattices....Pages 21-35
Nonlinear Optics and Solitons in Photonic Crystal Fibres....Pages 37-54
Spatial Switching of Slow Light in Periodic Photonic Structures....Pages 55-70
Front Matter....Pages 72-72
Introduction to Solitons in Photonic Lattices....Pages 73-99
Complex Nonlinear Photonic Lattices: From Instabilities to Control....Pages 101-126
Light Localization by Defects in Optically Induced Photonic Structures....Pages 127-143
Polychromatic Light Localisation in Periodic Structures....Pages 145-161
Front Matter....Pages 164-164
Bose-Einstein Condensates in 1D Optical Lattices: Nonlinearity and Wannier-Stark Spectra....Pages 165-180
Transporting Cold Atoms in Optical Lattices with Ratchets: Mechanisms and Symmetries....Pages 181-194
Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices with Variable Spatial Symmetry....Pages 195-203
Symmetry and Transport in a Rocking Ratchet for Cold Atoms....Pages 205-214
Front Matter....Pages 216-216
Optical Metamaterials: Invisibility in Visible and Nonlinearities in Reverse....Pages 217-240
Nonlinear Metamaterials....Pages 241-257
Circuit Model of Gain in Metamaterials....Pages 259-272
Discrete Breathers and Solitons in Metamaterials....Pages 273-287
Back Matter....Pages 1-4

✦ Subjects

Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices;Laser Technology, Photonics;Optical and Electronic Materials