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 nonlinea

Solitary wave physics plays a significant role from modern optical physics to optical communication, optical switching and optical storage. This book gives an u

It is ironic that the ideas ofNewton, which described a beam of light as a stream ofparticles made it difficult for him to explain things like thin film interfe

Although chemists, biochemists, biologists, and material scientists are often interested in using nonlinear optical techniques for characterizing their samples,

Mathematical methods play a significant role in the rapidly growing field of nonlinear optical materials. This volume discusses a number of successful or promis