Nonlinear Surface Electromagnetic Phenomena


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In recent years the physics of electromagnetic surface phenomena has developed rapidly, evolving into technologies for communications and industry, such as fiber and integrated optics. The variety of phenomena based on electromagnetism at surfaces is rich and this book was written with the aim of summarizing the available knowledge in selected areas of the field. The book contains reviews written by solid state and optical physicists on the nonlinear interaction of electromagnetic waves at and with surfaces and films. Both the physical phenomena and some potential applications are dealt with. Included are discussions of nonlinear wave mixing on films and surfaces, second harmonic generation in waveguides and at surfaces, nonlinear waves guided by dielectric and semiconductor surfaces and films, surface gratings formed by high energy laser beams, and reflection and transmission switching of strong beams onto nonlinear surfaces. Chapters on light scattering from surface excitations and magnetic order-disorder and orientational phase transitions complete this essential contribution to the modern optics literature.




Nonlinear Diffusion of Electromagnetic Fields


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Nonlinear Diffusion of Electromagnetic Fields covers applications of the phenomena of non-linear diffusion of electromagnetic fields, such as magnetic recording, electromagnetic shielding and non-destructive testing, development of CAD software, and the design of magnetic components in electrical machinery. The material presented has direct applications to the analysis of eddy currents in magnetically nonlinear and hysteretic conductors and to the study of magnetization processes in electrically nonlinear superconductors. This book will provide very valuable technical and scientific information to a broad audience of engineers and researchers who are involved in these diverse areas. - Contains extensive use of analytical techniques for the solution of nonlinear problems of electromagnetic field diffusion - Simple analytical formulas for surface impedances of nonlinear and hysteretic media - Analysis of nonlinear diffusion for linear, circular and elliptical polarizations of electromagnetic fields - Novel and extensive analysis of eddy current losses in steel laminations for unidirectional and rotating magnetic fields - Preisach approach to the modeling of eddy current hysteresis and superconducting hysteresis - Extensive study of nonlinear diffusion in superconductors with gradual resistive transitions (scalar and vertorial problems)







Nonlinear Phenomena in the Ionosphere


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Nonlinear effects in the ionosphere (cross modulation of radio waves) have been known since the 1930s. Only recently, however, has the rapid increase in the power and directivity of the radio transmitters made it possible to alter the properties of the ionosphere strongly and to modify it artificially by applying radio waves. This has revealed a variety of new physical phenomena. Their study is not only of scien tific interest but also undisputedly of practical interest, and is presently progressing very rapidly. This monograph is devoted to an exposition of the present status of theoretical research on this problem. Particular attention is paid, naturally, to problems in the development of which the author himself took part. It is my pleasant duty to thank V. L. Ginzburg, L. P. Pitaevskii, V. V. Vas'kov, E. E. Tsedilina, A. B. Shvartsburg, and Va. S. Dimant for useful discussions and for valuable remarks during various stages of the work on the problem considered in this book. Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .




Nonlinear Phenomena And Chaos In Magnetic Materials


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In this book, some of the principal investigators of the phenomena have reviewed their successes. The contributions include an overview of the field by H Suhl, followed by a detailed review of the high-power response of magnetic materials. Following that chapter, a number of authors review the phenomena for a variety of magnetic materials and pumping configurations.In the final chapter, evidence of another nonlinear effect is reviewed. Using a pulsed driving field, it is possible to excite a travelling spin wave. The nonlinear contributions will give rise to a “bunching” effect which compensates for the dispersive effects to produce a shape-preserving traveling wave pulse known as solitons.Ordered magnetic materials have provided a rich source for the investigation of nonlinear phenomena. These investigations have contributed much to our knowledge of the behavior of chaotic systems, as well as to a better understanding of the high-power response of the magnetic materials themselves.







Nonlinear Surface Electromagnetic Phenomena


Book Description

In recent years the physics of electromagnetic surface phenomena has developed rapidly, evolving into technologies for communications and industry, such as fiber and integrated optics. The variety of phenomena based on electromagnetism at surfaces is rich and this book was written with the aim of summarizing the available knowledge in selected areas of the field. The book contains reviews written by solid state and optical physicists on the nonlinear interaction of electromagnetic waves at and with surfaces and films. Both the physical phenomena and some potential applications are dealt with. Included are discussions of nonlinear wave mixing on films and surfaces, second harmonic generation in waveguides and at surfaces, nonlinear waves guided by dielectric and semiconductor surfaces and films, surface gratings formed by high energy laser beams, and reflection and transmission switching of strong beams onto nonlinear surfaces. Chapters on light scattering from surface excitations and magnetic order-disorder and orientational phase transitions complete this essential contribution to the modern optics literature.




Nonlinear Phenomena in Electromagnetic Fields


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The 146 contributions in this volume provide a detailed overview for both scientists and engineers on the rapid advances in evolutionary technology in the area of electromagnetics, which have evolved with the recent developments in material processing techniques as well as with the advent of new materials such as high temperature superconductors, advanced ceramics, and magnetic fluids. Growing developments in computer technology which expedite the analytical approach to electromagnetic field-material interactions are examined. Since such interactions involve nonlinearity of material properties, scientists and engineers are now more deeply concerned with nonlinear phenomena in nature. The newly emerging academic fields which were originally introduced to treat nonlinear phenomena in human intelligence and organisms, i.e. fuzzy theory and neuro-computing are discussed in the light of their unveiled competency in analysing nonlinear phenomena in applied electromagnetic materials. The papers reflect the success of the symposium in bringing together workers from various disciplines sharing a common interest in the expanding boundaries of applied electromagnetic materials.