Advances in Nonlinear Photonics
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Advances in Nonlinear Photonics combines fundamental principles with an overview of the latest developments. The book is suitable for the multidisciplinary audience of photonics researchers and practitioners in academia and R&D, including materials scientists and engineers, applied physicists, chemists, etc. As nonlinear phenomena are at the core of photonic devices and may enable future applications such as all-optical switching, all-optical signal processing and quantum photonics, this book provides an overview of key concepts. In addition, the book reviews the most important advances in the field and how nonlinear processes may be exploited in different photonic applications.
Key Features
- Introduces fundamental principles of nonlinear phenomena and their application in materials and devices
- Reviews and provides definitions of the latest research directions in the field of nonlinear photonics
- Discusses the most important developments in materials and applications, including future prospects
Readership
Materials Scientists and Engineers; Applied Physicists; Engineers
Table of Contents
- Section 1: Fundamentals and Recent Advances
1. From Nonlinear Optics to Nonlinear Photonics: A Brief History
2. An Introduction to Nonlinear Photonics
3. An Introduction to Nonlinear Ultrafast Photonics
4. Nonlinear Laser Dynamics
5. Nonlinear Topological Photonics
6. Terahertz Nonlinear Photonics
7. Optical Vortices in Nonlinear Photonics
Section 2: Materials
8. Nonlinear Photonics in Glasses
9. Optical Nonlinearities in Graphene and 2D Materials
10. Nonlinear Photonics in Metamaterials
Section 3: Applications
11. Nonlinear Dynamics in Optical Fibers
12. Nonlinear Integrated Photonics
13. Optical Kerr Shutter for Single Photon Detection
14. Nonlinear Effects in Optical Microresonators
15. Nonlinear Integrated Quantum Optics
16. Nonlinear Polarized Microscopy
17. Nonlinear Photonics and artificial intelligence
Product details
- No. of pages: 550
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Woodhead Publishing 2023
- Published: January 1, 2023
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323983846
About the Editors
Giancarlo C Righini
Dr. Righini is a former director of the Enrico Fermi Center and of the National Department on Materials and Devices, CNR. He was also research director at IFAC and vice-president of the International Commission for Optics. His research interests concern fiber and integrated optics, glass materials, and microresonators, with reference to both linear and nonlinear phenomena. He has published more than 500 research papers and co-edited various books. (ORCID: 0000-0002-6081-6971) He is a fellow of the OSA, SPIE, SIF (Italian Physical Society), EOS (European Optical Society) and SIOF (Italian Society of Optics and Photonics).
Affiliations and Expertise
Nello Carrara Institute of Applied Physics (IFAC), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy
Luigi Sirleto
As visiting scientist, he spent 2 months in 2001 at University of Twente, (NL) and 9 months in 2003-2004 at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles)-USA. In 2006, he founded and currently leads the research activities of the Ultrafast and Nonlinear Optics Lab at ISASI-CNR. He is co-author of about 190 papers, mostly on nonlinear optics and photonic devices.
Affiliations and Expertise
Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy
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