OPTICAL SOLITIONS: FROM FIBERS TO PHOTONIC CRYSTALS

Kivshar, Yuri & Agrawal, Govind

ISBN 10: 0124105904 / ISBN 13: 9780124105904

Edité par Academic Press, San Diego & London, 2003

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Octavo, 540 Pages. In Very Good condition. Black spine with green and white lettering. Full binding in black and green paper. Boards show mild shelf wear and minor creasing to corners. Text block has library stamps on front free endpaper and back pastedown. Note: Shelved in Netdesk Column F, ND-F. 1381874. FP New Rockville Stock.

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• Titre: OPTICAL SOLITIONS: FROM FIBERS TO PHOTONIC CRYSTALS
• Éditeur: Academic Press, San Diego & London
• Date de parution: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0124105904
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780124105904
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition.
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Sciences, Math, Medicine, & Natural History

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Synopsis

The current research into solitons and their use in fiber optic communications is very important to the future of communications. Since the advent of computer networking and high speed data transmission technology people have been striving to develop faster and more reliable communications media. Optical pulses tend to broaden over relatively short distances due to dispersion, but solitons on the other hand are not as susceptible to the effects of dispersion, and although they are subject to losses due to attenuation they can be amplified without being received and re-transmitted.This book is the first to provide a thorough overview of optical solitons. The main purpose of this book is to present the rapidly developing field of Spatial Optical Solitons starting from the basic concepts of light self-focusing and self-trapping. It will introduce the fundamental concepts of the theory of nonlinear waves and solitons in non-integrated but physically realistic models of nonlinear optics including their stability and dynamics. Also, it will summarize a number of important experimental verification of the basic theoretical predictions and concepts covering the observation of self-focusing in the earlier days of nonlinear optics and the most recent experimental results on spatial solitons, vortex solitons, and soliton interaction & spiraling.

À propos de l?auteur

Govind P. Agrawal received his B.Sc. degree from the University of Lucknow in 1969 with honours. He was awarded a gold medal for achieving the top position in the university. Govind joined the Indian Institute of Technology at New Delhi in 1969 and received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in 1971 and 1974, respectively. After holding positions at the Ecole Polytechnique (France), the City University of New York, and the Laser company, Quantel, Orsay, France, Dr. Agrawal joined in 1981 the technical staff of the world-famous AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, N.J., USA, where he worked on problems related to the development of semiconductor lasers and fiber-optic communication systems. He joined in 1989 the faculty of the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester where he is a Professor of Optics. His research interests focus on quantum electronics, nonlinear optics, and optical communications. In particular, he has contributed significantly to the fields of semiconductor lasers, nonlinear fiber optics, and optical communications. He is an author or co-author of more than 250 research papers, several book chapters and review articles, and four books. He has also edited the books "Contemporary Nonlinear Optics" (Academic Press, 1992) and "Semiconductor Lasers: Past, Present and Future" (AIP Press, 1995). The books authored by Dr. Agrawal have influenced an entire generation of scientists. Several of them have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Greek, and Russian.