Nonlinear Optics for the Information Society Book

	The role of nonlinear optical devices in the optical communication age	1
	Non-linear optical technology in present and future transmission systems and optical networks	3
	Wavelength conversion, optical parametric amplification and oscillation in periodically poled Ti:LiNbO3 optical waveguides	23
	Enhanced nonlinear optical response of liquid crystals	29
	Characterization of AlGaAs/AlAs waveguides for optical parametric generation	35
	Nonlinear optics for quantum communication	43
	All-optical diode in a quasi phase matched LiNbO3 waveguide	45
	Feasibility of all-optical computation by second harmonic generated holograms	51
	All-optical wavelength conversion by four wave mixing in a polydiacetylene waveguide	55
	All-optical switching devices in integrated optics cylindrical microresonators: An experimental feasibility study	57
	Photonic band gap structures in planar nonlinear waveguides: Application to second harmonic generation	63
	Photonic band gap logic elements for optical data processing	69
	Silicon microphotonics	75
	Semiconductor optical amplifier dynamics for wavelength conversion applications	77
	Optical data storage using microholographic gratings	79
	High rate vander Lugt and joint Fourier transform correlators	89
	Rewritable optical storage by polarization holography	91
	Nonlinear magneto-optical probing of ultrathin magnetic layer interfaces: CoNi/Pt andD Co/Cu	97
	Hybrid soliton fibre laser characterisation	99
	Progress in hologram writing in Bi2TeO5 crystals	105
	Distributed response analysis of the water dimer	107
	Polymethineimine chains as new materials presenting large first hyperpolarizability	111
	Numerical analysis of optical nonlinearities in multispan DWDM fibre transmission systems	113
	Nonlinear characterization of very thin polymer films by surface plasmon resonance	123
	Cavity spatial solitons in semiconductor microcavities	125
	Adaptive waveguides using photorefractive creening solitons	131
	Vibrational first and second hyperpolarizability of H-C[actual symbol not reproducible]N	133
	Mode propagation along the multilayered optical fibre with Kerr like non-linearity	139
	Numerical study of optical bistability in a nonlinear photonic crystal notch filter	145
	A low-dimensional model for deformation of bichromatic waves in third order nonlinear media	147
	Picosecond absorption saturation dynamics of new [M(R,R'timdt)2] metal-dithiolenes	149
	Measurements of the nonlinear coefficient n2/Aeff using a self-aligned interferometer and a Faraday mirror	155
	Parametric downconversion of PPLN-waveguide for quantum information technologies	161
	Multistability and hysteresis of standing waves in a periodic structure	163
	Storage density enhancement in holographic memory card system	179
	Self-organized parametric down conversion in optical fibres	185
	Dynamics of the electro-optic properties of dye-containing polymers	193
	Author Index	195