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Nonlinear Guided Waves : Physics and Applications

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Abstract

Nonlinear optics deals with the mixing of optical beams to produce new optical waves, or to change the optical properties of a medium.1 The efficiency of a nonlinear process typically varies (1) directly with the products of the interacting beam intensities, and (2) either linearly (nonphase-matched processes) or quadratically (phase-matched processes) on the distance over which the input and output waves interact, and hence the distance over which the high intensities can be maintained. For all-optical signal processing devices based on low-power sources such as semiconductor lasers, the total optical power available requires focusing of the beams to reduce the beam cross-sectional area and hence increase the intensity. This in turn reduces the interaction distance over which high intensities can be maintained. This tradeoff between high intensities and interaction distance is characteristic of most nonlinear interactions.

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Stegeman, G.I., Seaton, C.T. (1986). Nonlinear Guided Waves : Physics and Applications. In: Prokhorov, A.M., Ursu, I. (eds) Trends in Quantum Electronics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10624-2_16

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