Nonlinearities in Periodic Structures and Metamaterials

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Denz, Cornelia. (Editor), Flach, Sergej. (Editor), Kivshar, Yuri S. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences, 150
• Subjects: Physics.; Optical materials.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.; Laser Technology, Photonics.; Optical and Electronic Materials.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02066-7

 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.