New York and London: Plenum Press, 1990. — 500 p.
This book is based on the contributions to the 17th International School of Materials Science and Technology, entitled Nonlinear Waves in Solid State Physics. The book covers the fundamental properties of nonlinear waves in solid state materials, dealing with both theory and experiment. The aim is to emphasise the methods underpinning the important new developments in this area. The material is organised into subject areas that can broadly be classified into the following groups: the theory of nonlinear surface and guided waves in self-focusing magnetic and non-magnetic materials; nonlinear effects at interfaces; nonlinear acoustoelectronic and surface acoustic waves; Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of nonlinear problems; nonlinear effects in optical fibres; resonance phenomena; and nonlinear integrated optics. The chapters have been grouped together according to these classifications as closely as possible, but it should be borne in mind that although there is much overlap of ideas, each chapter is essentially independent of the others.
A. D. Boardman, P. Egan, T. Twardowski, and M. Wilkins, Nonlinear Surface-guided Waves in Self-focusing Optical Media
R. F. Wallis, A. D. Boardman, and M. Shabat, Nonlinear Electromagnetic Surface Waves on Gyrotropic Media
A. E. Kaplan, P. W. Smith, and W. J. Tomlinson, Nonlinear Waves and Switching Effects at Nonlinear Interfaces
A. A. Maradudin and A. P. Mayer, Surface Acoustic Waves on Nonlinear Substrates
D. F. Parker, Nonlinear Surface Acoustic Waves on Homogeneous Media
Yu. V. Gulyaev, S. N. Ivanov, G. D. Mansfeld, and P. E. Zilberman, Nonlinear Theory of Acoustoelectronic Waves in Semiconductors
A. D. Boardman, Yu. V. Gulyaev, S. A. Nikitov, and Wang Qi, Nonlinear Waves in Ferromagnetic Films
J. M. Arnold, The Lagrangian Approach to Nonlinear Wave Propagation
B. Crosignani, P. Di Porto, and E. Caglioti, The Optical Kerr Effect in Fibers
R. H. Stolen, Second Harmonic Generation in Optical Fibers
K. J. Blow and N. J. Doran, Solitons in Optical Fibres
A. I. Voronko, Yu. V. Gulyaev, and G. N. Shkerdin, Linear and Nonlinear Theory of Surface Polariton Diffraction
M. Bertolotti, C. Sibilia, R. Horak, J. Perina, and J. Janszky, Quantum Theory of Nonlinear Planar Devices
R. Reinisch, G. Vitrant, and M. Neviere, Electromagnetic Resonance Induced Nonlinear Optical Phenomena
G. I. Stegeman, Overview of Nonlinear Integrated Optics