"Version: 202111"--Title page verso.

Revised edition of: Nonlinear optics of photonic crystals and meta-materials.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Introduction -- 1.1. Photonic crystals -- 1.2. Metamaterials -- 1.3. Negative index of refraction -- 1.4. Perfect lenses -- 1.5. Periodicity -- 1.6. Excitations in nonlinear media -- 1.7. Systems with defects and disorder

2. A simple model of nonlinear dielectrics -- 3. Basic properties of photonic crystals -- 3.0. Comparison of free space and periodic media solutions -- 3.1. Plane wave method -- 3.2. Wannier function method -- 3.3. Computer simulation methods -- 3.4. Surfaces -- 3.5. Fiber Bragg gratings

4. Basic properties of metamaterials -- 4.1. Properties of SRRs and SRR arrays -- 4.2. Negative refractive index metamaterials -- 4.3. Refraction at the interface between positive and negative index media

5. Nonlinearity in photonic crystal and metamaterial waveguides -- 5.1. SRR metamaterials -- 5.2. Photonic crystal waveguides -- 6. Nonlinear differential equations in physics and their soliton solutions

7. Difference equations in physics -- 7.1. Nonlinear photonic crystals and SRR metamaterials -- 7.2. Bright soliton-like solutions -- 7.3. Dark and gray soliton solutions -- 7.4. Continuum limits

8. Additional aspects and applications of nonlinearity -- 8.1. Optical bistability -- 8.2. Transmission through barriers of nonlinear optical media

9. Basic applications : Kerr media, second harmonic generation, parametric oscillation and amplification -- 9.1. Transfer matrix methods : linear and Kerr nonlinear media -- 9.2. Nonlinearity in higher-dimensional photonic crystals and surface gratings -- 9.3. Generation of second harmonics -- 9.4. Some symmetry properties of the second harmonic tensor -- 9.5. Parametric oscillation and amplification : frequency sums -- 9.6. SRRs revisited

10. Disordered systems : site impurities and random media -- 10.1. Sites and clusters and off-channel interactions -- 10.2. Anderson localization.

Introduction to Nonlinear Optics of Photonic Crystals and Metamaterials, Second Edition presents concise examples illustrating the basic principles of the field, embedding a discussion of current and future device applications in a theoretical account of the non-linear behaviour of light at nanoscale to produce an informative and authoritative introduction to the subject for students trying to advance rapidly amongst the vanguard of modern applied physics and engineering. Pitched at an accessible level, this survey of some of the most important fundamentals of the field is ideal for researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, as well as self-taught students looking to expand their field of interest.

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Arthur McGurn is Professor Emeritus of Physics at Western Michigan University. He received his PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1975, working in theoretical condensed matter physics. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the American Physical Society, the Electromagnetics Academy, and the Optical Society of America, and is an Outstanding Referee of the American Physical Society. He has over 150 research publications.

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