Controlling Light in Optically Induced Photonic Lattices

• Main Author: Terhalle, Bernd (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Springer Theses
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum optics.; Nanoscale science.; Nanoscience.; Nanostructures.; Optics.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Statistical physics.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.; Nonlinear Dynamics.; Quantum Optics.; Nanoscale Science and Technology.

Discrete periodic structures play an important role in physics, and have opened up an exciting new area of investigation in recent years. Questions relating to the control of light in such structures still represent a major challenge. It is this highly active field that is adressed in the present th...

Table of Contents:

• Motivation and Outline
• Light Propagation in Nonlinear Periodic Media
• Optically Induced Photonic Lattices
• Resonant Rabi Oscillations and Interband Transitions
• Nonlinear Light Localization
• Summary and Outlook
• Appendix.