Böcker av A. B. (Professor Shvartsburg

This introduction to a field of applied physics on the frontier between integrated optics and non-linear wave dynamics deals with third-order non-linear optical phenomena in layered structures, guiding interfaces and channel waveguides. Energy dependent periodicity, gyrotropy, reflection, mode conversion and non-reciprocity are all explored.

The behaviour of very short electromagnetic pulses as they travel in dispersive media is impossible to analyse and model by the usual Fourier methods. Shvartsburg assembles here for the first time alternative mathematical methods and tools to accomplish these tasks. Such pulses are of great practical interest and importance to laser physicists and telecommunications engineers among others.