Self-Organization in Optical Systems and Applications in Information Technology (Springer Series in Synergetics)

Contrary to monographs on non-linear optics this book concentrates on problems of self-organization in various important contexts. The reader learns how patterns in non-linear optical systems are created and what theoretical methods can be applied to describe them. Next, various aspects of pattern formation such as associative memory, information processing, spatio-temporal instability, photo refraction, and so on are treated.
The book addresses graduate students and researchers in physics and optical engineering.

"I liked this book very much. The contributions, which stem from some of the leading groups in the field, are almost uniformly of high quality, and have been assembled by (the editors) into a cohesive set...I can strongly recommend this volume. It has both breadth and depth, and gives an accurate portrayal of the current state of the art." - Mark Saffman, OFD, Riso National Laboratory