Description
Book SynopsisUltrafast photonics has become an interdisciplinary topic of high international research interest because of the spectacular development of compact and efficient lasers producing optical pulses with durations in the femtosecond time domain. Present day long-haul telecommunications systems are almost entirely based on the transmission of short bursts or pulses of laser light along silicon optical fibres, with Erbium-doped fibre amplifiers inserted to regenerate the signals periodically. The phenomenal success of optical fibre communications has created a substantial opto-electronics industry that provides efficient laser sources, high-speed modulators, optical amplifiers and detectors.
Although optical data transmission is now well established, current systems approaches will eventually cease to meet the ever-increasing demands of data-communication. Existing wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) schemes will need to be complemented with time-domain multiplexing (TDM) techniq
Table of Contents
Prospects for ultrafast digital processing, Femtosecond sources based on vibronic crystals, Short pulse generation using sem iconductor lasers, Measuring ultrafast laser pulses, Cascaded nonlinear optical processes, Spatial beam instabilities due to instantaneous nonlinear mechanisms, Planar photonic crystal microcircuit elements, Propagation of short light pulses in photonic band-gap structures, Ultrafast spectroscopy studies of semiconductors, Ultrafast semiconductor all-optical processing devices for telecommunications applications, Ultrafast processes in semiconductor optical amplifiers and modulators, Towards polym er lasers and amplifiers, Optical spintronics for switching, Localised waves in femtosecond optics, Poster Sessions, List of Participants, Index
