Nonlinear Optics for the Information Society

The role of nonlinear optical devices in the optical communication age.- Non-linear optical technology in present and future transmission systems and optical networks.- Second-Order NLO Devices.- Wavelength conversion, optical parametric amplification and oscillation in periodically poled Ti:LiNbO3 optical waveguides.- Enhanced nonlinear optical response of liquid crystals.- Characterization of AlGaAs/AlAs waveguides for optical parametric generation.- Quantum Communication and All-Optical Devices.- Nonlinear optics for quantum communication.- All-optical diode in a quasi phase matched LiNbO3 waveguide.- Feasibility of all-optical computation by second harmonic generated holograms.- All-optical wavelength conversion by four wave mixing in a polydiacetylene waveguide.- All-optical switching devices in integrated optics cylindrical microresonators. An experimental feasibility study.- Novel Applications of Nonlinear Materials/PBG.- Photonic band gap structures in planar nonlinear waveguides: Application to second harmonic generation.- Photonic band gap logic elements for optical data processing.- Silicon microphotonics.- Semiconductor optical amplifier dynamics for wavelength conversion applications.- Optical Memories.- Optical data storage using microholographic gratings.- High rate vander Lugt and joint Fourier transform correlators.- Rewritable optical storage by polarization holography.- Nonlinear magneto-optical probing of ultrathin magnetic layer interfaces: CoNi/Pt andD Co/Cu.- Poster Sessions.- Hybrid soliton fibre laser characterisation.- Progress in hologram writing in Bi2TeO5 crystals.- Distributed response analysis of the water dimer.- Polymethineimine chains as new materials presenting large first hyperpolarizability.- Numerical analysis of optical nonlinearities in multispan DWDM fibre transmission systems.- Nonlinear characterization of very thin polymer films by surface plasmon resonance.- Cavity spatial solitons in semiconductor microcavities.- Adaptive waveguides using photorefractive creening solitons.- Vibrational first and second hyperpolarizability of H-C?N.- Mode propagation along the multilayered optical fibre with Kerr like non-linearity.- Numerical study of optical bistability in a nonlinear photonic crystal notch filter.- A low-dimensional model for deformation of bichromatic waves in third order nonlinear media.- Picosecond absorption saturation dynamics of new [M(R,R’timdt)2] metal-dithiolenes.- Measurements of the nonlinear coefficient n2/Aeff using a self-aligned interferometer and a Faraday mirror.- Parametric downconversion in PPLN-waveguide for quantum information technologies.- Multistability and hysteresis of standing waves in a periodic structure.- Storage density enhancement in holographic memory card system.- Self-organized parametric down conversion in optical fibres.- Dynamics of the electro-optic properties of dye-containing polymers.- Author Index.