Coherent and Nonlinear Lightwave Communications (Artech House Optoelectronics Library)

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The community of research workers interested in solitons and signal processing came to realise that there is more to the behaviour of crystals displaying second-order nonlinearity than creating second-harmonic sources. It turns out that there are also soliton - or, more correctly, solitary wave - solutions to the coupled equations which involve a balance between the fundamental wave and the co-propagating second-harmonic wave. Second-order nonlinearity, then, is attracting a lot of interest, both in the more traditional phase-matching requirements needed to generate second-harmonic waves very efficiently - see the drive to the blue laser or its alternatives - and in the new area of solitary waves. The present book is devoted to three main themes: solitons, quasi-phase matching, frequency conversion and parametric interactions. The material has been written by distinguished contributors and the range of topics, together with the emphasis put on them, gives the reader a depth of understanding firmly rooted in the basic material.

Anisotropic and Nonlinear Optical Waveguides (Optical Wave Sciences and Technology, Vol. 2)

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Anisotropic and Nonlinear Optical Waveguides (Optical Wave Sciences and Technology, Vol. 2)
Carlo G. Someda
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$Introduction to Photorefractive Nonlinear Optics (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics)$
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Introduction to Photorefractive Nonlinear Optics (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics)
Pochi Yeh
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Bridging the gap between theory and practice, it clarifies important phenomena in photorefractive media and shows how to apply these phenomena in actual situations. While the focus is on the theory of propagation of optical waves and the mixing of electromagnetic radiation in these media, there are also many numerical examples based on real-world situations included for hands-on guidance. In addition to exploring the basics of electromagnetic waves and periodic structures, this practical guide discusses optical phase conjugators and photorefractive resonators; covers fundamental properties of gratings and holograms; details how to use optical information processing, optical interconnection and neural networks; and treats high-order photorefractive effects in optical fibers.

Nonlinear Microwave Signal Processing: Towards a New Range of Devices (NATO Science Partnership Sub-Series: 3:)

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Nonlinear Microwave Signal Processing: Towards a New Range of Devices (NATO Science Partnership Sub-Series: 3:)

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The area of microwave magnetics is experiencing rapid growth and is seen as strategically important. There is a drive towards higher frequencies and the market needs nonlinear, nonreciprocal components. This book deals with the fundamental physical processes and devices for nonlinear microwave signal processing, attention being paid to device design and realisation. A main theme of the book is soliton excitation and modelling configurations for pulse compression.
Audience: Engineers and scientists as well as those in the microwave and optical industries interested in soliton devices, frequency modulation, and nonlinear microwave magnetics.

Nonlinear Optical Communication Networks

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Nonlinear Optical Communication Networks
Eugenio Iannone , Francesco Matera , Antonio Mecozzi , and Marina Settembre
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ASIN: 0471152706

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What telecommunications professionals need to know about nonlinear optical communication systems

This book responds to the need for a coherent approach to nonlinear optical communication systems. It gives telecommunications researchers and engineers a handle on the unique problems presented by the proliferation of optical technologies in telecommunications in recent years and provides problem-solving strategies for various network functions and operations.

The product of a collaborative effort by four well-known researchers in telecommunications transmission systems, this volume covers design basics, network performance, and state-of-the-art system analysis tools and is supplemented with hundreds of illustrations as well as appendices containing the necessary mathematical derivations. It details:

Design principles of the network transmission layer with optical technologies and fiber nonlinearities in place.
Performance evaluation for a variety of optical transmission systems operating under nonlinear propagation regimes.
Local area networks, regional networks, and geographical networks—their potential transmission capacity and possible problems.
Examples of effective design from the most promising nonlinear optical transmission systems.
The methodology for design and analysis of a generic system

Nonlinear Optics for the Information Society (Mesa Monographs)

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Nonlinear Optics for the Information Society (Mesa Monographs)

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ASIN: 1402001320

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Nonlinear optical phenomena can be exploited in advanced devices for transport, processing, and storage of information. These are needed as the present-day approach - mainly using on electron-based technology - faces the challenges of increasing demand on bandwidth and processing speed. A key role in the development of nonlinear devices is the availability of novel materials with the required nonlinear optical properties. With such materials, scientific creativity and careful design, promising concepts have been developed resulting in the demonstration of devices.
This book contains the proceedings of NOIS 2000 (Nonlinear Optics for the Information Society) Annual Meeting of the COST Action P2, held at the University of Twente, in Enschede, The Netherlands, on 26-27 October, 2000. It comprises a selection of the presentations at the meeting, reporting state-of-the-art research and developments in the field of applications of nonlinear phenomena in information technology.

Nonlinear Optics in Telecommunications (Advanced Texts in Physics)

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Nonlinear Optics in Telecommunications (Advanced Texts in Physics)
Thomas Schneider
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ASIN: 3540201955

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Broader bandwidths, denser channel spacing, and higher signal intensities all makes nonlinear effects more critical to the performance of telecommunications systems. This comprehensive and didactic overview explores the nonlinear effects from a physical point of view and discusses the implications for signal capacity. Enriched with practical considerations and experimental results, the book offers special chapters dealing with applications of nonlinear effects for signal processing, ultrafast-optical switching, wavelength conversion, nonlinear amplification, and optical phase-conjugation. The author Thomas Schneider of Deutsche Telekom demonstrates how innovative thinking can actually exploit nonlinear effects to enhance bandwidth and overcome previous limitations. Equipped with chapter-end summaries and problems, this valuable reference can also serve as a graduate-level textbook.

Optical Solitons (Springer Series in Nonlinear Dynamics)

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Optical Solitons (Springer Series in Nonlinear Dynamics)
F.K. Abdullaev , S.A. Darmanyan , and P.K. Khabibullaev
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Oh, for the passion of life!.......2007-05-09

Make sure you read the short story "Youth," as well as the "Heart of Darkness." Both are super, and youth is worth it for the following lines alone:

"And there was somewhere in me that thought: By jove! This is the deuce of an adventure--something you read about; and it is my first voyage as second mate--and I am only twenty--and here I am lasting it out as well as any of these men, and keeping my chaps up to the mark. I was pleased. I would not have given up the experience for worlds. I had moments of exultation. Whenever the old dismantled craft pitched heavily with her counter high in the air, she seemed to me to throw up, like an appeal, like a defiance, like a cry to the clouds without mercy, the words written on her stern: "Judea, London. Do or Die."

O youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it! To me she was not an old rattle-trap caring about eh world a lot of coal for a freight--to me she was the endeavour, the test, the trail of life. I think of her with pleasures, with affection, with great--as you would think of someone dead you have loved. I shall never forget her...pass the bottle."

"To make you hear, to make you feel- and above all, to make you see" .......2005-10-31

Conrad is the master tale- teller of English Literature. In this volume three stories, from three Ages of Life are included. The first 'Youth'is about a maiden vogage to sea, and the last "The End of the Tether" about an old man in his blindness. The story however which has been most written and thought about, and is considered one of Conrad's masterpieces is " Heart of Darkness".
It begins as a meditative reflection, a telling on the banks of the Thames to his friends by the veteran seaman Marlowe of a tale of exploration and disaster. He tells of a voyage into the heart of Africa in search of an enlightened European adventurer and merchant Kurtz . Kurtz has dealt in the deepest part of the jungle in trading in ivory. But what Marlowe comes to discover and see is someone who has seen into ' the heart of darkness' and dies crying out ,"The Horror, the Horror". Marlowe returns to Europe and civilization and tells Kurtz's fiancee that Kurtz's last words were her name.
But the tale is more than the story or the plot. With Conrad the meaning of the tale is the creation of the atmosphere and the meditation on the voyage throughout .It is in a kind too of bringing us into another whole mode of being in thinking about our lives.
" The heart of darkness" to the uncivilized African reality and it refers to the deepest recesses of the human soul, a soul which crosses through and transcends continents.As Conrad's great Literature does.

Good stuff.......2002-12-24

The only thing missing is "the nigger of the Narcisscus", but you can't have everything. As complex as "the heart of Darkness" is, you may be better served by starting this book with "The end of the Tether", it is great in its apparent simplicity, yet it has its own complexity.

Three of the finest short stories ever written.......2002-11-17

I first read "Youth" in my own youth, over 25 years ago. It has haunted me ever since. That it is difficult to describe why is, I believe, more a testament to Conrad's subtle skills than to my own undoubted incompetance as an expositor. On one level, "Youth" is little more than a tale of a ill-fated sea voyage, but its poignancy is unmatched by any work of short fiction I've ever come across. Good or bad, pleasant or horrific, our youth is what we all miss. The inclusion of this great novella and the magically exotic "End of the Tether" ought to be more than justification enough to buy this book--even if it didn't also include the justly famous, if sometimes obscure, "Heart of Darkness". No one should think he or she is familiar with Joseph Conrad who has not read all of these three wonderful tales. (If you can find a collection that also includes "The Nigger of Narcissus," even better.)

Youth/Heart of Darkness/Typhoon (Modern Library)

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Youth/Heart of Darkness/Typhoon (Modern Library)
Joseph Conrad
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Joseph Conrad came to writing after having been a sailor for nearly twenty years. The three long stories in this volume were composed early in his literary career, a few years after a grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo as the commander of a river steamer. "Youth" (1898) is the first of Conrad's stories to feature Captain Marlow, later the narrator of "Heart of Darkness", Lord Jim, and Chance. "Heart of Darkness" (1899), Marlow's story of his journey into the jungle to find Kurtz, the tormented white trader, becomes a multileveled commentary on colonialism, evil, and the unknown, emblemized in Kurtz's dying words: "The horror! The horror!" The complex moral issues posed by these tales, and by "Typhoon" (1901), a masterpiece about a storm at sea, anticipated many of the concerns of the later twentieth century. Francis Coppola appropriated Marlow and Kurtz for Apocalypse Now, his movie about the Vietnam War.

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This book is one of the most powerful books I have ever read.......1999-09-14

For me, "Heart of Daekness" is one of the most powerful books I have ever read. Even though it is rather short (about 100 pages), I have read it for quite a long time, since it is a very difficult book to understant. So far, I have read it twice, and I am only now beginning to understand it. It was (and still is) a joy to read it and it changes me forever.

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Heart of Darkness, Youth, Typhoon

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The Portable Conrad : Two book length Novels : Nigger of the Narcissus & Typhoon; 3 long tales-Youth, Heart of Darkness, & the Secret Sharer; 6 short stories and personal writings

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The Portable Conrad : Two book length Novels : Nigger of the Narcissus & Typhoon; 3 long tales-Youth, Heart of Darkness, & the Secret Sharer; 6 short stories and personal writings

Manufacturer: Viking Press
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ASIN: B000I8EBGI

THREE SHORT NOVELS HEART OF DARKNESS YOUTH TYPHOON

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THREE SHORT NOVELS HEART OF DARKNESS YOUTH TYPHOON

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Three Short Novels: Heart of Darkness, Youth, Typhoon

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These three short novels by Joseph Conrad include a brief biography of the author and insightful introduction by Edward Weeks, who establishes the background of the three novels. These tales have their roots in Conrad's own experience working aboard ships and traveling to exotic locales for nineteen years. He holds a unique place in the history of English literature.

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Three Short Novels: Heart of Darkness, Youth, Typhoon
Joseph Conrad
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Three Short Novels: Heart of Darkness, Youth, Typhoon

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Three Short Novels; Heart Of Darkness; Youth; Typhoon
Joseph Conrad
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Youth - Heart Of Darkness - The End Or The Tether

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Youth - Heart Of Darkness - The End Or The Tether
Joseph Conrad
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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