Nonlinear Optical Materials and Devices for Applications in Information Technology

This text takes the reader from fundamental interactions of laser light in materials to the latest developments of digital optical information processing. The book emphasizes nonlinear optical interactions in bulk and low-dimensional semiconductors, liquid crystals and optical fibres. After establishing the basic laser/material interactions in these materials, it goes on to assess applications in soliton propagation, integrated optics, smart pixel arrays and digital optical computing.