Advanced Photonics with Second-Order Optically Nonlinear Processes

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction to the Propagation of CW Radiation and Solitons in Quadratically Nonlinear Media....Pages 1-57
Plane and Guided Wave Effects and Devices Via Quadratic Cascading....Pages 59-87
Control of Laser Light Parameters by χ (2) :χ (2) Nonlinear Optical Devices....Pages 89-112
Asymmetric Quantum Wells for Second-Order Optical Nonlinearities....Pages 113-132
Experiments on Quadratic Spatial Solitons....Pages 133-161
Diffraction Beam Interaction in Quadratic Nonlinear Media....Pages 163-184
A Lithium Niobate Quadratic Device for Wavelength Multiplexing around 1.55µm....Pages 185-188
Full Vector Theory of Fundamental and Second-Harmonic CW Waves....Pages 189-192
Nonlinear Phase Shifts in a Counterpropagating Quasi-Phase-Matched Configuration....Pages 193-196
Generation of High Power Picosecond Pulses by Passively Mode-Locked Nd: Yag Laser Using Frequency Doubling Mirror....Pages 197-200
Collision, Fusion, and Spiralling of Interacting Solitons in a Bulk Quadratic Medium....Pages 201-204
Quadratic Ring-Shaped Solitary Waves....Pages 205-208
Solitary and Periodic Pulses for χ (2) : Explicit Solutions in Abundance....Pages 209-214
Propagation of Ring Dark Solitary Waves in Saturable Self-defocusing Media....Pages 215-218
The N -Soliton Interactions, Complex Toda Chain and Stable Propagation of NLS Soliton Trains....Pages 219-226
Ray Optics Theory of Self-Matched Beams Mutual Focusing in Quadratic Nonlinear Media....Pages 227-230
Resonant Properties of χ 2 in Two-Particle Frequency Regions....Pages 231-234
On Parametric Coupled Solitons with High-Order Dispersion....Pages 235-238
Large Self-Phase Modulation via Simultaneous Second Harmonic Generation and Sum Frequency Mixing....Pages 239-242
Pulsed Beam Self-Focusing....Pages 243-246
Slow and Immobile Solitons in Quadratic Media....Pages 247-250
Fermi Resonance Nonlinear Waves and Solitons in Organic Superlattices....Pages 251-275
Cascaded Processes in Gyrotropu Media and Novel Electro-Optical Effect on χ (2) Nonlinearity....Pages 277-292
Classical and Quantum Aspects of C.W. Parametric Interaction in a Cavity....Pages 293-318
Alternative Media for Cascading....Pages 319-343
Frequency Conversion with Semiconductor Heterostructures....Pages 345-374
Parametric Interactions in Waveguides Realized on Periodically Poled Crystals....Pages 375-400
Rb:KTP Optical Waveguides....Pages 401-404
Backward Parametric Interactions in Quasi-Phase Matched Configurations....Pages 405-408
Modes of TM Field in Nonlinear Kerr Media....Pages 409-412
Numerical Simulations of Self-Induced Plasma Smoothing of Spatially Incoherent Laser Beams....Pages 413-414
Effects of Impurities on Existence and Propagation of Intrinsic Localized Modes in Ferromagnetic Spin Chains....Pages 415-418
Optical Properties and Holographic Recording in Pb 2 ScTaO 6 Single Crystal....Pages 419-422
Nonlinear Effects in Bulk Semiconductor Waveguide Switches....Pages 423-426
Nonlinear Transmission of Ultrashort Light Pulses by a Thin Semiconductor Film for the Case of Two-Photon Biexciton Excitation....Pages 427-428
The Optical and Structural Properties of H x Li 1-x NbO 3 Phases, Generated in Proton Exchanged LiNbO 3 Optical Waveguides....Pages 429-432
Optical Properties of Bi 12 TiO 20 Photorefractive Crystals Doped with Cu and Ag....Pages 433-436
Coherent and Incoherent Optical Processes and Phase Sensitive Adiabatic States....Pages 437-440
High Average Power Tunable Deep UV Generation Using Cascading Second - Order Nonlinear Optical Conversions....Pages 441-444
Optical Filters and Switches Using Photonic Bandgap Structures....Pages 445-448
Thin Layer Modification of P.V.D.F. with Copper Sulfide....Pages 449-450
Quadratic Solitons: Past, Present, and Future....Pages 451-475
Back Matter....Pages 477-486