عنوان

Spatial Hysteresis and Optical Patterns

(Number (ISBN

3662047926

(Number (ISBN

9783662047927

Number

b579363

Title Proper

Spatial Hysteresis and Optical Patterns

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

by Nikolay N. Rosanov.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Berlin, Heidelberg

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2002

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(xii, 308 pages)

Series Title

Springer series in synergetics.

Text of Note

Introduction to Physics of Distributed Bistable Systems --; Increasing Absorption Bistability --; Hybrid Bistable Devices --; Driven Nonlinear Interferometers --; Nonlinear Radiation Reflection --; Bistable Laser Schemes --; Conclusion: Comparing Different Types of Optical Patterns --; Paraxial and Nonparaxial Radiation Propagation --; Constitutive Equations for Medium Nonlinear Polarization --; Transverse Structures and Digital Optical Computing --; Bistability of Quantum Anharmonic Oscillator --; Transverse Effects for Squeezed States of Light --; References --; Index.

Text of Note

The book is devoted to the study of optical patterns and to optical bistability and hysteresis. In its methodology it is at the intersection of investigations in synergetics and modern nonlinear optics. This first monograph on optical patterns addresses researchers as well as students. The author studies the rich class of spatially distributed bistable optical systems, and especially dissipative optical solitons which resemble molecules, crystals or biological objects when combined. The author studies further the inhomogeneities of bistable systems and gives a consistent description of spatial hysteresis. Further topics include diffractive mechanisms for coupling, three-dimensional optical solitons, quantum aspects and optical information processing, lasers with a saturable absorber, non-linear waveguides and fibers with nonlinear gain or losses.

Optical pattern recognition.

Physics.

by Nikolay N. Rosanov.

Nikolay N Rosanov

Electronic name

[Book]

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