Progress in Optics (eBook)

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1998 | 1. Auflage
554 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-087998-7 (ISBN)

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Progress in Optics Volume 38

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This volume contains six review articles on a range of topics of research in optics. The first article deals with various nonlinear optical phenomena in stratified media, showing that resonances which arise from stratification are of considerable importance for achieving low-threshold nonlinear optical devices. It also includes a study of optical bistability and harmonic generation in Kerr nonlinear layered media, and various phase matching techniques are discussed, along with developments in gap solutions, weak photon localization and enhancement of nonlinear susceptibilities in layered composites. The second article reviews the optical aspects of interferometric gravitational-wave detectors, and article number three presents a review of temperature-related effects and thermal modelling of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs). The review concludes with a look at the most important results obtained. The fourth articles describeds some theoretical developments in mathematical techniques that are used in physical optics and in optical information processing. These include generaliztions with parameters which take on fractional or complex values, and their use in areas of optics is discussed. Following articles discuss a number of Fourier-plane nonlinear filtering techniques and present an overview of the field of optical digital computing and interconnection. Various aspects are covered, including the historical development, the motivation for the use of free-space optics in computing applications, computational aspects of nonlinear optical devices and optical interconnections and their implementations. The articles conclude with an overview of architectures and systems for free-space optical computing and switching.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Progress in Optics, Volume XXXVIII 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 8
CHAPTER I. NONLINEAR OPTICS OF STRATIFIED MEDIA 16
1. Introduction 18
2. Nonlinear Transmission and Optical Bistability in Layered Media 21
3. Harmonic Generation And Other Nonlinear Phenomena In Layered Geometry 65
4. Nonlinear Optical Properties Of Layered Composites 81
5. CONCLUSIONS 90
Acknowledgement 91
References 91
CHAPTER II . OPTICAL ASPECTS OF INTERFEROMETRIC GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE DETECTORS 100
1. Introduction 102
2. Princple and Practice of the Interferometric Detection 104
3. Coupling with Gravitational Waves 114
4. Optical Couplings 136
5. Thermo-Optical Coupling 156
Acknowledgements 175
References 175
CHAPTER III. THERMAL PROPERTIES of VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS 180
1. Introduction 182
2. Comparison of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting and Edge-Emitting Diode Lasers 183
3. Effects of Temperature on Vcsel Operation 197
4. Fundamentals of Thermal Modeltng of Vcsels 220
5. Comprehensve Thermal Models of Vcsels 233
6. Conclusions 269
Acknowledgments 270
References 271
CHAPTER IV. FRACTIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN OPTICS 278
1. Introduction 280
2. the Fractional Fourier Transformat (Frt) 283
3. the Fractional Hilbert Transformation (Fhit) 291
4. the Fractional Zernike Transformation (Fzt) 299
5. the Harmonic Real Transformations 301
6. Other Fractional Transformations 304
7. Fractional Filtering 317
8. Other Aspects of Fractionalization 339
9. Fractionalization and Group Theory 341
10. Conclusions 348
Acknowledgments 349
Appendix A. About the Wigner Distribution 349
References 354
CHAPTER V. PATTERN RECOGNITION with NONLINEAR TECHNIQUES IN the FOURIER DOMAIN 358
1. Introduction 360
2. Nonlinear Joint Transform Correlators 362
3. Multiobject Detection Using Binary Joint Transform Correlators 368
4. Composite Fourier-Plane Nonlinear Filters 374
5. Illumination Dependence of Binary Nonlinear Joint Transform Correlator 385
6. Chirp-Encoded Joint Transform Correlators 390
7. Random Phase Encoded Joint Transform Correlator 405
8. Security Validation and Security Verlficatlon 413
9. Summary 419
Acknowledgement 420
List of Symbols and Abbreviations 420
Appendix A. Performance Metrics 424
Appendix B. Frequency-Dependent Threshold Function Methods 426
References 431
CHAPTER VI. FREE-SPACE OPTICAL DIGITAL COMPUTING and INTERCONNECTION 434
1. Facets 436
2. System Model and Computational Aspects 448
3. Nonlinear Optical Devices 462
4. Optical Interconnections 481
5. Architectures and Systems 501
6. Conclusion and Outlook 518
Acknowledgement 519
References 519
Author Index 530
Subject Index 548
Contents of Previous Volumes 552
Cumulative Index 552

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.7.1998
• Mitarbeit: Herausgeber (Serie): Emil Wolf
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Optik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 0-08-087998-5 / 0080879985
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-087998-7 / 9780080879987