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Optical information processing of the future is associated with a new generation of compact nanoscale optical devices operating entirely with light. Moreover, adaptive features such as self-guiding, reconfiguration and switching become more and more important. Nonlinear devices offer an enormous potential for these applications. Consequently, innovative concepts for all-optical communication and information technologies based on nonlinear effects in photonic-crystal physics and nanoscale devices as metamaterials are of high interest. This book focuses on nonlinear optical phenomena in periodic media, such as photonic crystals, optically-induced, adaptive lattices, atomic lattices or metamaterials. The main purpose is to describe and overview new physical phenomena that result from the interplay between nonlinearities and structural periodicities and is a guide to actual and future developments for the expert reader in optical information processing, as well as in the physics of cold atoms in optical lattices.

Nonlinear optics --- Nonlinear waves --- Photonic crystals --- Bose-Einstein condensation --- Metamaterials --- Physics --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Applied Physics --- Light & Optics --- Materials --- Nonlinear optics. --- Electromagnetism. --- Photonic crystals. --- Metamaterials. --- Meta materials --- Bandgap structures, Photonic --- Photonic bandgap structures --- Electromagnetics --- Optics, Nonlinear --- Physics. --- Electronics. --- Microelectronics. --- Optical materials. --- Electronic materials. --- Classical Electrodynamics. --- Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation. --- Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices. --- Optical and Electronic Materials. --- Crystal lattices --- Magnetic induction --- Magnetism --- Composite materials --- Electromagnetism --- Optics --- Lasers --- Electrical engineering --- Physical sciences --- Optics. --- Electrodynamics. --- Lasers. --- Photonics. --- Electronic materials --- New optics --- Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation --- Masers, Optical --- Optical masers --- Light amplifiers --- Light sources --- Optoelectronic devices --- Optical parametric oscillators --- Microminiature electronic equipment --- Microminiaturization (Electronics) --- Electronics --- Microtechnology --- Semiconductors --- Miniature electronic equipment --- Dynamics --- Light