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Introduction Self-Organization in Nonlinear Optics — Kaleidoscope of Patterns

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During all of its “coherent” lifetime optics, or rather should we say radio physics, the more mature and developed field for coherence and nonlinear problems, has been an assiduous discipline. Fourier optics, harmonics generation, parametric excitation, adaptive optics (the reader may continue this list), all these different directions taken by modern optics along with all of their underlying concepts appeared earlier in radio physics. It is easy to understand this friendship, with such strong and unequal rights, as the foundation for coherent and nonlinear optics was laid in the early 1960s by radio physicists unfaithful to their discipline.

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Vorontsov, M.A., Miller, W.B. (1995). Introduction Self-Organization in Nonlinear Optics — Kaleidoscope of Patterns. In: Vorontsov, M.A., Miller, W.B. (eds) Self-Organization in Optical Systems and Applications in Information Technology. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 66. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97525-7_1

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