Download or read book Optical Computing and Nonlinear Materials written by Nasser Peyghambarian and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nonlinear Optics and Optical Computing written by S. Martellucci and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conference "Nonlinear Optics and Optical Computing" was held May 11-19, 1988 in Erice, Sicily. This was the 13th conference organized by the International School of Quantum Electronics, under the auspices of the "Ettore Majorana" Center for Scientific Culture. This volume contains both the invited and contributed papers presented at the conference, providing tutorial background, the latest research results, and future directions for the devices, structures and architectures of optical computing. The invention of the transistor and the integrated circuit were followed by an explosion of application as ever faster and more complex microelectronics chips became available. The information revolution occa sioned by digital computers and optical communications is now reaching the limits of silicon semiconductor technology, but the demand for faster com putation is still accelerating. The fundamental limitations of information processing today derive from the performance and cost of three technical factors: speed, density, and software. Optical computation offers the potential for improvements in all three of these critical areas: Speed is provided by the transmission of impulses at optical veloc ities, without the delays caused by parasitic capacitance in the case of conventional electrical interconnects. Speed can also be achieved through the massive parallelism characteristic of many optical computing architec tures; Density can be provided in optical computers in two ways: by high spatial resolution, on the order of wavelengths of light, and by computa tion or interconnection in three dimensions.

Download or read book Nonlinear Optical Materials and Devices for Applications in Information Technology written by A. Miller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonlinear Optical Materials and Devices for Applications in Information Technology takes the reader from fundamental interactions of laser light in materials to the latest developments of digital optical information processing. The book emphasises nonlinear optical interactions in bulk and low-dimensional semiconductors, liquid crystals and optical fibres. After establishing the basic laser--material interactions in these materials, it goes on to assess applications in soliton propagation, integrated optics, smart pixel arrays and digital optical computing.

Download or read book Principles and Applications of Nonlinear Optical Materials written by R.W. Munn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonlinear optics is a topic of much current interest that exhibits a great diversity. Some publications on the subject are clearly physics, while others reveal an engineering bias; some appear to be accessible to the chemist, while others may appeal to biological understanding. Yet all purport to be non linear optics so where is the underlying unity? The answer is that the unity lies in the phenomena and the devices that exploit them, while the diversity lies in the materials used to express the phenomena. This book is an attempt to show this unity in diversity by bringing together contributions covering an unusually wide range of materials, preceded by accounts of the main phenomena and important devices. Because ofthe diversity, individual materials are treated in separate chapters by different expert authors, while as editors we have shouldered the task of providing the unifying initial chapters. Most main classes of nonlinear optical solids are treated: semiconductors, glasses, ferroelectrics, molecular crystals, polymers, and Langmuir-Blodgett films. (However, liquid crystals are not covered. ) Each class of material is enough for a monograph in itself, and this book is designed to be an introduction suitable for graduate students and those in industry entering the area of nonlinear optics. It is also suitable in parts for final-year undergraduates on project work. It aims to provide a bridge between traditional fields of expertise and the broader field of nonlinear optics.

Download or read book Nonlinear Optics and Applications written by Pochi Yeh and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Quantum Nonlinear Optics written by Eiichi Hanamura and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This graduate-level textbook gives an introductory overview of the fundamentals of quantum nonlinear optics. It deals with the organization of radiation field, interaction between electronic system and radiation field, statistics of light, and mutual manipulation of light and matter. It also covers laser oscillation, dynamics of light, nonlinear optical response, and nonlinear spectroscopy, as well as ultrashort and ultrastrong laser pulse. In addition, latest results of the frontier of this science are presented. Problems and solutions help the reader to master and review the material.

Download or read book Galileo Unbound written by David D. Nolte and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galileo Unbound traces the journey that brought us from Galileo's law of free fall to today's geneticists measuring evolutionary drift, entangled quantum particles moving among many worlds, and our lives as trajectories traversing a health space with thousands of dimensions. Remarkably, common themes persist that predict the evolution of species as readily as the orbits of planets or the collapse of stars into black holes. This book tells the history of spaces of expanding dimension and increasing abstraction and how they continue today to give new insight into the physics of complex systems. Galileo published the first modern law of motion, the Law of Fall, that was ideal and simple, laying the foundation upon which Newton built the first theory of dynamics. Early in the twentieth century, geometry became the cause of motion rather than the result when Einstein envisioned the fabric of space-time warped by mass and energy, forcing light rays to bend past the Sun. Possibly more radical was Feynman's dilemma of quantum particles taking all paths at once — setting the stage for the modern fields of quantum field theory and quantum computing. Yet as concepts of motion have evolved, one thing has remained constant, the need to track ever more complex changes and to capture their essence, to find patterns in the chaos as we try to predict and control our world.

Download or read book Nonlinear Optics and Applications 2007 written by Hossin A. Abdeldayem and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonlinear optics is a field of study resulting from laser beam interactions with materials which started with the advent of lasers in the early 60 s. This field of study is maturing dramatically while playing a major role in newly emerging photonic technologies. Nonlinear optics has spawned the development of numerous optical devices that have become indispensable in our daily lives. This exciting field has played a major role in the development of optical applications such as optical signal processing, optical computers, ultrafast switches, ultra-short pulsed lasers, sensors, laser amplifiers, and many others. This special review volume on Nonlinear Optics and Applications is intended for those who want to become more aware of some of the most recent developments in photonics and to provide a glimpse of the role of nonlinear optics in modern photonic technologies. It is also important to note that the vast quantity of research in nonlinear optics, optical materials, and nonlinear optical devices in the last five years alone is enormous, the totality of which is well beyond the scope of a single volume. This fact along with other constraints, such as communication and time, has made our efforts toward fair and comprehensive discussion of the most representative of modern advances in this vast field extremely difficult, and no doubt futile. Consequently, we apologize in advance to those whose high quality and equally significant work has been unavoidably left out. We are hopeful that similar volumes will follow, and that this dialogue will continue to expand. In this book, we give a survey on the recent advances of nonlinear optical applications. Emphasis will be on novel devices and materials, switching technology, optical computing, and important experimental results. We also include the recent developments in topics which are of historical interest to many researchers, and, at the same time, of potential use in the fields of all-optical communication and computing technologies. In addition, we enclosed a few new and unconventional related topics which might provoke new thinking and discussion. This review volume is designed to be of interest to a broad range of research scientists, engineers, and graduate students engaged in multidiscipline research areas such as optics, material science, chemistry, physics, lasers, fibers, semiconductors, computer and electrical engineering. The book is organized as follows: Chapter 1 provides an introduction and update to nonlinear optics and applications particularly as related to organic p-electron materials and devices fabricated from such materials. This chapter provides insight into the fundamental concepts and guiding principles leading to improved materials and devices. Chapter 2 gives a brief review of the nonlinear Schrodinger and associated equations that model spatio-temporal propagation in one and higher dimensions in nonlinear dispersive media. Fast adaptive numerical techniques were used to solve these equations. A unique variational approach is also outlined that helps in determining the ranges of nonlinearity and dispersion parameters. Chapter 3 is an update of the supercontinuum light source by professor Alfano, who observed the phenomenon for the first time in 1970. The phase change induced by an intense ultrashort laser pulse propagating through a medium causes a frequency sweep within the pulse envelope, resulting in a well-defined temporal chirp. A look into the nonlinear mechanisms involved in producing such a system and its potential applications are presented. Chapter 4 demonstrates wideband ultrashort pulse fiber laser sources using optical fibers and ultrashort pulse fiber lasers and a wavelength tuning range from 0.78 to 2.0 mm. The generation process and characteristics have been analyzed both experimentally and numerically. Chapter 5 provides an overview of experimental demonstrations and theoretical understanding of lattice fabrication (including 1D lattices, 2D square lattices and ring lattices, and lattices with structured defects), as well as their linear and nonlinear light guiding properties. Discrete diffraction and self-trapping are demonstrated in a variety of settings, including fundamental discrete solitons, discrete vector solitons, discrete dipole solitons, discrete vortex solitons, and necklace-like solitons. In addition, the formation of 1D and 2D lattices with single-site negative defects, and linear bandgap guidance in these structures are demonstrated. Chapter 6 discusses the second-order EO (Pockels) effect, the third-order (Kerr) and thermo-optical effects in optical waveguides and their applications in optical communication. Chapter 7 presents a theoretical study and experimental data of beam combination using Stimulated Brillouin Scattering for improving upon beam quality in optical fibers. The study includes both coherent and incoherent combination as well as two-beam phasing using the unique polarization characteristics of stimulated Brillouin scattering. Chapter 8 demonstrates theoretical and experimental results of a double-functional interferometer, using holographic recording of a dynamic grating in CdTe:V crystal. The mechanisms involved were attributed to a slow electro-optical effect and a fast free-carrier grating. Chapter 9 represents the poling process of optical polymers to induce second and third order nonlinear optical effects. The chapter attributes the electro-optic effect in polymers to the presence of chromophore in the polymer matrix and explains the different approaches for incorporating the chromophore into the polymer matrix. This chapter also describes the different poling methods, and explains accompanying mechanisms. Chapter 10 treats the effects of a magnetic field on materials, and its role in nonlinear optics. The chapter presents a set of experimental results, which prompts reconsideration of the role of magnetization in optics and predictions of optical magnetic resonance, negative permeability, and magnetic birefringence at optical frequencies. Chapter 11 describes observations of Stokes and anti-Stokes emissions of gold nano-particles as a three step process involving single-photon or three-photon excitation of electron-hole pairs, relaxation of excited electrons and holes, and emission from electron-hole recombination. This chapter also presents quantitative analyses of the experimental data. Chapter 12 explores the use of linear optics and the reliance on detection to design a number of optical logic gates that perform operations in the complex domain of linear optics and are converted to Boolean operations by the act of detection. These logic gates have no energy cost and the bandwidth is strictly limited by the electronic modulation and demodulation rate and can be integrated on chips with the electronics. Chapter 13 presents an answer to the important question: Can the electric field of a light wave be assigned a definite polarity? In other words, can an optical field vector be more up than down? It also describes physical experiments and devices where this polar asymmetry is generated and detected and also connects the answer to the independently developed, Nobel Prize-winning technique of generating stabilized combs of mode-locked frequency components of light. Chapter 14 presents an excellent review of chalcopyrite materials and their potential as compact highly sensitive nonlinear optical sensors, of potential for many remote sensing devices. The chapter also touches on the integration of miniaturized photonic nonlinear bandgap structures, which enhances the nonlinearity and minimizes problems associated with walk-off effects, and outlines a theoretical analysis of nonlinear propagation in these structures. Chapter 15 presents the status of the ultimate device, the development of which can be achieved within the time-frame of this 21st century through photonic technologies: optical computing. This chapter lists the different components of which the optical computer might consist of and lists the most recent advances in their development to date, along with a substantial list of the recent literature on each component. The chapter concludes with a discussion of obstacles yet to be overcome to enable building of such a system.

Download or read book Principles and Applications of Nonlinear Optical Materials written by Robert W. Munn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1993 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonlinear optics is attracting attention because of its applications in telecommunications and its possibilities for optical computing. Optoelectronics has been singled out by many as being of considerable strategic importance. Optical fibre communications shows that optics is already a method of choice; nonlinear optics offers further improvements in efficiency and versatility.

Download or read book Nonlinear Photonics written by Hyatt M. Gibbs and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonlinear photonics is the name given to the use of nonlinear optical devices for the generation, communication, processing, or analysis of information. This book is a progress report on research into practical applications of such devices. At present, modulation, switching, routing, decision-making, and detection in photonic systems are all done with electronics and linear optoelectronic devices. However, this may soon change, as nonlinear optical devices, e.g. picosecond samplers and switches, begin to complement optoelectonic devices. The authors succinctly summarize past accomplishments in this field and point to hopes for the future, making this an ideal book for newcomers or seasoned researchers wanting to design and perfect nonlinear optical devices and to identify applications in photonic systems.

Download or read book Optical Computing written by F.A.P Tooley and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by ten leading experts in the field, Optical Computing cover topics such as optical bistability, optical interconnects and circuits, photorefractive devices, spatial light modulators, associative memory, and optical computer architectures.

Download or read book Optical Information Technology written by S.Desmond Smith and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research in optical information technology in Europe has been very active inrecent years. This volume records state-of-the-art research conducted in some 22 laboratories who have worked together within EC ESPRIT Basic Research Action 3199 up to 1992. The topics cover: (1) Active optical logic and switching devices - embracing new materials, nonlinear and electrooptic mechanisms as well as advanced device fabrication. These devices cover the range from all-optical nonlinear interferometer structures through hybrid optical-electronic modulators to integrated emitter-receiver structures. (2) The latest state of optical interconnect technology, embracing diffractive optics (binary and multi-level phase gratings), holographic space-variant elements and micro-refractive optics. (3) Contributions on optical information processing architecture and demonstrator projects. The materials base ranges from silicon to II-VI materials with the realisation of pn-junction devices in ZnSe. The research reported here lays the basis for long-term progress in devices for information processing.

Download or read book Nonlinear Photonics written by Hyatt M. Gibbs and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-08-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonlinear photonics is the name given to the use of nonlinear optical devices for the generation, communication, processing, or analysis of information. This book is a progress report on research into practical applications of such devices. At present, modulation, switching, routing, decision-making, and detection in photonic systems are all done with electronics and linear optoelectronic devices. However, this may soon change, as nonlinear optical devices, e.g. picosecond samplers and switches, begin to complement optoelectonic devices. The authors succinctly summarize past accomplishments in this field and point to hopes for the future, making this an ideal book for newcomers or seasoned researchers wanting to design and perfect nonlinear optical devices and to identify applications in photonic systems.

Download or read book Optical Processing and Computing written by Henri Arsenault and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optical Processing and Computing is a collection of research from the USA, Canada, Russia, and Poland on the developments in the fields of digital optical computing and analog optical processing. This book is organized into 15 chapters and begins with an overview of the hierarchy of interconnect problems. Some chapters deal with the fundamental limitations and capabilities of optics in relation to interconnections, switching, computing, materials, and devices. Other chapters explore the architectures, technology, and applications of the field. The topics range from promising areas in the early stages of development, such as nonlinear effects in fibers that could bring about the optical transistor, to developments in areas ready for technology, such as the production of optical kinoforms, an important type of computer-generated optical component. With a strong focus on the fundamental aspects of the field, this book is of interest to specialists, researchers, and students who need a broad coverage of the principles of optical computing and of the underlying physics.

Download or read book Contemporary Nonlinear Optics written by Robert Boyd and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Nonlinear Optics discusses the different activities in the field of nonlinear optics. The book is comprised of 10 chapters. Chapter 1 presents a description of the field of nonlinear guided-wave optics. Chapter 2 surveys a new branch of nonlinear optics under the heading optical solitons. Chapter 3 reviews recent progress in the field of optical phase conjugation. Chapter 4 discusses ultrafast nonlinear optics, a field that is growing rapidly with the ability of generating and controlling femtosecond optical pulses. Chapter 5 examines a branch of nonlinear optics that may be termed nonlinear quantum optics. Chapter 6 reviews the new field of photorefractive adaptive neural networks. Chapter 7 presents a discussion of recent successes in the development of nonlinear optical media based on organic materials. Chapter 8 reviews the field of nonlinear optics in quantum confined structures. Chapter 9 reviews the field of nonlinear laser spectroscopy, with emphasis on advances made during the 1980s. Finally, Chapter 10 reviews the field of nonlinear optical dynamics by considering nonlinear optical systems that exhibit temporal, spatial, or spatio-temporal instabilities. This book is a valuable source for physicists and other scientists interested in optical systems and neural networks.

Download or read book Landmark Papers on Photorefractive Nonlinear Optics written by Pochi Yeh and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1995 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, intended for students, researchers and engineers, is a collection of classic papers on photorefractive nonlinear optics. Included are landmark papers on fundamental photorefractive phenomena, two-wave mixing, four-wave mixing, phase conjugators and resonators, material growth and physics, and applications in image processing, optical storage and optical computing.

Download or read book Nonlinear Optical Materials written by Jerome V Moloney and published by . This book was released on 1998-08-13 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: