Cornelia Denz Livres

Focusing on nonlinear photorefractive optics, this book explores recent advancements in the field, highlighting key discoveries like spatial soliton formation and spontaneous pattern formation. It delves into transverse effects and their implications for applications such as wave guiding in adaptive solitons and techniques for pattern control in information processing. The author, Professor Denz, is recognized for her significant contributions, including the Lise Meitner Prize for her work on photorefractive neural networks.

Of interest to scientists working in the field of optics or nonlinear physics, this book gives an overview of current developments in nonlinear photorefractive optics. It dicusses exciting discoveries, with special emphasis on transverse effects such as spatial soliton formation and interaction, spontaneous pattern formation and pattern competition in active feedback systems. Different aspects of potential applications, such as wave guiding in adaptive photorefractive solitons and techniques for pattern control for information processing, are also described. The author Professor Denz received the Lise Meitner Prize in 1993 for her dissertation on photorefractive neural networks and in 1999 the Adolf Messer Prize for the development of an optical motion detection filter.

During the next years neural networks and systems amenable to instructions will extend their influence in science and technology. A prominent point of interest in this field is assigned to optical networks: they are small and flexible, and due to their ability of parallel processing they are devoted to the construction of small systems. This monograph explains the fundamentals of optical neural networks to physicists, engineers and device constructors.