Download or read book Nonlinear Photonics and Novel Optical Phenomena written by Zhigang Chen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-06-27 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonlinear Photonics and Novel Optical Phenomena contains contributed chapters from leading experts in nonlinear optics and photonics, and provides a comprehensive survey of fundamental concepts as well as hot topics in current research on nonlinear optical waves and related novel phenomena. The book covers self-accelerating airy beams, integrated photonics based on high index doped-silica glass, linear and nonlinear spatial beam dynamics in photonic lattices and waveguide arrays, the theory of polariton solitons in semiconductor microcavities, and Terahertz waves.