Nonlinear Photonics and Novel Optical Phenomena [Hardcover]

Nonlinear Photonics and Novel Optical Phenomena contains contributed chapters from leading experts in nonlinear optics and photonics, and provides a comprehensive survey of fundamental concepts as well as hot topics in current research on nonlinear optical waves and related novel phenomena. The book covers self-accelerating airy beams, integrated photonics based on high index doped-silica glass, linear and nonlinear spatial beam dynamics in photonic lattices and waveguide arrays, the theory of polariton solitons in semiconductor microcavities, and Terahertz waves.

Here, leading experts provide a comprehensive survey of fundamental concepts as well as hot topics in current research on nonlinear optical waves and related novel phenomena, including subjects such as self-accelerating airy beams and Terahertz waves..

Chapter 1 - Self-Accelerating Airy Beams: Generation, Control, and Applications.- Chapter 2 - Advanced Integrated Photonics in Doped Silica Glass.- Chapter 3 - Linear and Nonlinear Wave Behavior in Amorphous Photonic Lattices.- Chapter 4 - Nonlinear Control of Multi-Color Beams in Coupled Optical Waveguides.- Chapter 5 - Spatial Beam Dynamics Mediated by Hybrid Nonlinearity.- Chapter 6 - Theory of Polariton Solitons in Semiconductor Microcavities.- Chapter 7 - Observation of True Optical Vortices in a Laser System.- Chapter 8 - Scale-Free Optics.- Chapter 9 - Spatially Dispersive Shock Waves in Nonlinear Optics.- Chapter 10 - Nonlinear Interaction of Intense Ultrashort Filaments.- Chapter 11 - The Dawn of Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics in the Terahertz Regime.- Chapter 12 - Generation of Terahertz Radiation via Purcell Enhanced Nonlinear Frequency Mixing.- Chapter 13 - Photonic Transition in Nanophotonics.

Zhigang Chen is a Professor at San Francisco State University, and a specially-appointed Cheung Kong Scholar at Nankai University by the Ministry of Education in China. He earned his M.S. in physics from the Univerlã