Beam Shaping and Control with Nonlinear Optics:
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Weitere Verfasser: Kajzar, F. (HerausgeberIn), Reinisch, R. (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Boston, MA Springer US 1998
Schriftenreihe:NATO ASI Series :B 369
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Beschreibung:The field of nonlinear optics, which has undergone a very rapid development since the discovery of lasers in the early sixties, continues to be an active and rapidly developing research area. The interest is mainly due to the potential applications of nonlinear optics: directly in telecommunications for high rate data transmission, image processing and recognition or indirectly from the possibility of obtaining large wavelength range tuneable lasers for applications in industry, medicine, biology, data storage and retrieval, etc. New phenomena and materials continue to appear regularly, renewing the field. This has proven to be especially true over the last five years. New materials such as organics have been developed with very large second- and third-order nonlinear optical responses. Important developments in the areas of photorefractivity, all optical phenomena, frequency conversion and electro-optics have been observed. In parallel, a number of new phenomena have been reported, some of them challenging the previously held concepts. For example, solitons based on second-order nonlinearities have been observed in photorefractive materials and frequency doubling crystals, destroying the perception that third order nonlinearities are required for their generation and propagation. New ways of creating and manipulating nonlinear optical materials have been developed. An example is the creation of highly nonlinear (second-order active) polymers by static electric field, photo-assisted or all-optical poling. Nonlinear optics involves, by definition, the product of electromagnetic fields. As a consequence, it leads to the beam control
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 475 p)
ISBN:9780306470790
9780306459023
ISSN:0258-1221
DOI:10.1007/b117080

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