Autor: A. D. Boardman

This book is based on the contributions to the 17th International School of Materials Sci- ence and Technology, entitled Nonlinear Waves in Solid State Physics. This was held as a NATO Advanced Study …

Although it took some time to establish the word, photonics is both widely accepted and used throughout the world and a major area of activity concerns nonlinear materials. In these the nonlinearity …

It is ironic that the ideas of Newton, which described a beam of light as a stream ofparticles made it difficult for him to explain things like thin film interference. Yet these particles, called ‚ph …