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Electro-optic and Photorefractive Materials

Proceedings of the International School on Material Science and Technology, Erice, Italy, July 6–17, 1986

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. Peter Günter

    1. Laboratorium für Festkörperphysik, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, Switzerland

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Part of the book series: Springer Proceedings in Physics (SPPHY, volume 18)

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Table of contents (30 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
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  3. Electro-optical Effects in Liquid Crystals and Biopolymers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. The Chemistry and Physics of Thermotropic Liquid Crystals

      • E. P. Raynes
      Pages 80-89

    3. Electro-optic Effects in Liquid Crystals

      • E. P. Raynes
      Pages 90-98

    4. Electro-optic Devices Using Liquid Crystals

      • E. P. Raynes
      Pages 99-109

    5. Nonlinear Optical and Electro-optical Properties of Biopolymers

      • S. K. Kurtz, S. D. Kozikowski, L. J. Wolfram
      Pages 110-130

  4. Electro-optical Devices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. Introduction to Integrated Optics

      • E. Voges
      Pages 132-149

    3. Integrated Electro-optic Devices

      • E. Voges
      Pages 150-158

    4. Integrated Optics for Optical Communications

      • E. Voges
      Pages 159-164

    5. Nuclear Techniques for Optical Waveguide Characterization

      • A. Carnera
      Pages 165-178

    6. Optical Waveguides in LiNbO3 Produced by Ti In-diffusion, Ion Exchange and Ion Implantation

      • A. Carnera
      Pages 179-194

    7. Room-Temperature Bulk GaAs: Dominant Nonlinearities, Fast-Recovery Gates, Arrays for Parallel Processing

      • H. M. Gibbs, N. Peyghambarian, Y. H. Lee, M. Warren, A. Chavez-Pirson, S. H. Park et al.
      Pages 195-203
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About this book

This volume is based on lectures and contributed papers presented at the Eleventh Course of the International School of Materials Science and Tech­ nology that was held in Erice, Sicily, Italy at the Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture during the period 6-17 July 1986. The subject of the course was "Electro-optic and Photorefractive Materials: Applications in Sig­ nal Processing and Phase Conjugation" . The fields of electro-optics and photorefraction have developed rapidly since the invention of lasers just over twenty-five years ago. The possibil­ of altering the optical properties of a material by electric fields or by ity optical waves is of great importance for both pure science and for practical applications such as optical signal processing, telecommunications and opti­ cal display devices. These effects allow us to manipulate (modulate, deflect) and process a given light wave. Modulation, deflection and processing of light waves by means of the electro-optic effect is of fundamental importance in fiber optic telecommuniC1. tions and sensor systems w here the light signals can be processed prior or subsequent to transmission through the fibers. Thin film electro-optic materials with suitable electrode arrays on· the surface of the wave-guiding structures result in a technology often referred to as inte­ grated optics. In principle, integrated optics devices allow miniaturization and integration of many operations onto a single chip. The photorefractive effect, defined as a photo-induced change of the in­ dices of refraction, was the other topic treated in this course.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Laboratorium für Festkörperphysik, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, Switzerland

    Peter Günter

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Electro-optic and Photorefractive Materials

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the International School on Material Science and Technology, Erice, Italy, July 6–17, 1986

  • Editors: Peter Günter

  • Series Title: Springer Proceedings in Physics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71907-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-71909-7Published: 17 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-71907-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0930-8989

  • Series E-ISSN: 1867-4941

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 385

  • Topics: Condensed Matter Physics, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices

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