Unconventional Optical Elements for Information Storage, Processing and Communications

Unconventional Imaging and Processing.- Coherence Methods for Unconventional Imaging Processes.- Some Diffractive - Optical Systems Based on Novel Gratings.- Technologies and Potential Applications of Adaptive Optics.- Pattern Recognition with Joint Transform Correlators — Recent Developments.- Storage of 3D Information on 2D Elements.- Generalized Super Resolution Approach based on the Degrees of Freedom Hyper-space Adaptation.- Diffractive Elements and Microoptics.- Real-Time Holographic Interferometry in Photorefractive BTO Crystals Using Optical Phase Conjugation with a Low Power Laser Diode.- Planar Diffractive Elements for Compact Optics.- Design and Fabrication Issues in Subwavelength Diffractive Optical Elements.- Subwavelength and Quasi-Subwavelength Diffractive Optical Elements.- Microsystems for Optical Imaging and Interconnects.- Micro-Optical Components for Information Technology Fabricated via LIGA Technique.- Nonlinear and Ultrafast Optics.- Nonlinear Photonic Engineering: Physics and Applications.- Novel Optical Phenomena in Near-Critical Photorefractive Crystals:Diffusion Driven Diffraction and Spontaneous Self-Trapping.- Frequency Upconversion of Lasers with Optical Parametric Oscillators.- Characterization of Nonlinear Optical Materials for Photonic Applications.- Adaptive Techniques in Ultrafast Optics.- Nonlinear Spatio-Temporal Information Processing with Femtosecond Laser Pulses.- Optical Communication.- All-Optical Semiconductor Switching Devices for Applications in Optical Communication Systems.- Computer Modeling of Optical Fibers and Waveguides.- Tbit/sec Optical ATM Switch Utilizing Dynamic WDM Technology.- Towards Uniform Channel Performance in Dynamic WDM Systems and Networks.- Devices, Interconnects and Switching.- Resonant Structuresfor Optical Processing and Communication.- Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Modulators as Intracavity Laser Elements and Dynamic Holographic Correctors for Distortions in Optical Systems.- Fundamental Issues in Optical Interconnections.- The Electroholographic Optical Switches and Interconnects.- VIVALDI - Variations on a Theme of Optical Crossbars.- Laser-Material Interactions and Optical Storage.- Laser Materials Processing for Optoelectronics and Information Systems.- Recording in Quantum Dot Glasses by Pulsed Laser Irradiation.- Photorefractive Volume Holographic Memories for Associative Storage and Processing in a Multimedia Environment.- Characteristics and Applications of Volume Phase Holographic Gratings Recorded in Photo-Thermo-Refractive Glasses.- Optical Research in Israel.- Electrooptics in Israel.- Author Index.