Transverse-Pattern Formation in Photorefractive Optics

✍ Scribed by Prof. Dr. Cornelia Denz, Dr. Michael Schwab, Dr. Carsten Weilnau (auth.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 332
Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 188
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The book gives an overview of actual developments in nonlinear photorefractive optics and is intended for scientists working in the field of optics or nonlinear physics. It is meant as an introduction to actual exciting discoveries in this area, with special emphasize on transverse effects such as spatial soliton formation and interaction, spontaneous pattern formation, and pattern competition in active feedback systems. In all these areas, different aspects of potential applications, such as wave guiding in adaptive photorefractive solitons and techniques for pattern control for information processing, are described. Experimental realizations demonstrate the variety of photorefractive patterns, and different two-dimensional simulations prove the experimental observations.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction — Nonlinear Waves and Transverse Patterns....Pages 1-10
Light Propagation in Nonlinear Optical Media....Pages 11-48
The Photorefractive Nonlinearity....Pages 49-80
Spatial Photorefractive Solitons....Pages 81-112
Interaction of Spatial Solitons in a Saturable Photorefractive Medium....Pages 113-146
Waveguiding in Photorefractive Solitons....Pages 147-164
Vector Solitons in a Photorefractive Medium....Pages 165-194
Self-Organized Pattern Formation in Single-Feedback Systems....Pages 195-226
Multiple Patterns and Complex Pattern Competition....Pages 227-244
Manipulation and Control of Self-Organized Patterns by Spatio-Temporal Techniques....Pages 245-276
Transverse Patterns in Active Photorefractive Oscillators....Pages 277-324
Conclusion and Outlook....Pages 325-326
Index....Pages 327-328

✦ Subjects

Condensed Matter Physics;Quantum Optics

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