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Spatial Hysteresis and Optical Patterns - Nikolay N. Rosanov

Spatial Hysteresis and Optical Patterns

Buch | Softcover
XII, 308 Seiten
2010 | 1. Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2002
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-07672-5 (ISBN)
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This book addresses a subject at the crossing point of two lines of investi gation - synergetics and modern nonlinear optics. First, the book is devoted to optical patterns that previously were mainly attributed to the display of instabilities of homogeneous field distributions. Second, we deal with optical bistability and hysteresis, which historically were studied predominantly for point (lumped, spatially nondistributed) systems. In the book, which seems to be the first monograph devoted to opti cal patterns, I attempt to demonstrate that the variety of optical patterns and other synergetical phenomena is especially rich in spatially distributed bistable systems, and that instabilities of homogeneous states are not neces sary for the formation of the patterns. Of special interest are patterns such as dissipative optical solitons, which individually have particle-like features and when combined resemble molecules, crystals, biological objects, and even social groups. Another essential point is the key role of inhomogeneities of bistable sys tems. As for hysteresis, it has been studied mostly in point systems, in which, with fixed characteristics of the input signal, one of several sets of steady state output signal characteristics can form, depending on the prehistory. In spatially distributed optical systems, the kinetics of hysteresis acquires the form of "spatial hysteresis", or hysteresis of spatial distributions of field char acteristics. This problem of "stereoscopic vision" of such hysteresis was solved in optical bistability some 20 years ago, and the concepts proposed were later confirmed and expanded.

1. Introduction to the Physics of Distributed Bistable Systems.- 2. Increasing Absorption Bistability.- 3. Hybrid Bistable Devices.- 4. Driven Nonlinear Interferometers.- 5. Nonlinear Radiation Reflection.- 6. Bistable Laser Schemes.- 7. Conclusion: Comparing Different Types of Optical Patterns.- A. Paraxial and Nonparaxial Radiation Propagation.- B. Constitutive Equations for Medium Nonlinear Polarization.- C. Transverse Structures and Digital Optical Computing.- D. Bistability of the Quantum Anharmonic Oscillator.- E. Transverse Effects for Squeezed States of Light.- References.

"This book is very well written and contains many important and new original results that certainly play an important role in today's nonlinear optics." (Physicalia, 25/3, 2003)

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.12.2010
Reihe/Serie Springer Series in Synergetics
Zusatzinfo XII, 308 p.
Verlagsort Berlin
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 489 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Astronomie / Astrophysik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Elektrodynamik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Optik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Theoretische Physik
Schlagworte Absorption • Complex Systems • Hysteresis • Interferometer • Laser • Nonlinear Optics • Optical Information Processing • Optical Patterns • optical solitons • Optics
ISBN-10 3-642-07672-6 / 3642076726
ISBN-13 978-3-642-07672-5 / 9783642076725
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