Table of Contents

Preface -- Introduction -- Theory of Light Propagation in Linear and Weakly Nonlinear (Kerr Medium) Dielectrics -- Communications in Optical Fibers and Nonlinear Waveguides -- The Interaction Between Light and Matter -- Applications: Lasers, Optical Bistability, Distributed Feedback, Self-Induced Transparency, and Stimulated Scattering -- Mathematical and Computational Methods

About the Author

Jerome V. Maloney is Professor of Mathematics and Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona.Alan C. Newell is Professor of Mathematics, Research Professor of Arizona Research labouratories, University of Arizona. He is co-founder and editor of Physica D, Nonlinear Phenomena, a leading journal in the field. Jerome V. Maloney is Professor of Mathematics and Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona.Alan C. Newell is Professor of Mathematics, Research Professor of Arizona Research labouratories, University of Arizona. He is co-founder and editor of Physica D, Nonlinear Phenomena, a leading journal in the field.