Light Driven Self-Organization

This book presents a theoretical approach to the problem of self-organization and covers domain charge structure of amorphous semiconductors, looking at light-driven electron-hole kinetics in amorphous media. Material on self-organization in -doped silica fibers and second harmonic generation discusses observation of spontaneous breakdown of inversion symmetry in the fiber and positive feedback in response to a static electric field. A chapter on optical piston in glasses outlines the theory of all optical poling of glasses and presents an experiment in all optical poling and second harmonic generation in glasses. Author information is not given. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR