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Chapter I Brief Introduction...
the US data traffic would increase by 300 % annually. KMI Corporation also
estimated that the sales of dense wave-length division multiplexing equipment
will increase by quadruple its growth in the next five years; it was $ 9.4 billion
in 2004.
1.11 Literature Available on NLO
A vast spectrum of literature, review articles and books are available on
nonlinear optics and nonlinear materials and it is difficult to review and cite
them all, humble attempt is made to cite a few of them. Several review and
popular articles are written by many authors [114-117]. Review articles are
available on advances in parametric amplification and processing [118] and
on advances in photorefractive nonlinear optics [119] and on organic
nonlinear optical materials [27]. Several well written books are available on
NLO optics [3, 4, 12, 13,120,121]. However, there are certain novel features
associated with NLO materials explored, for example, the nano-scale
nonlinear optics [122], nanophotonic materials [123,124]. New non-linear
optical materials have been developed based on ferro fluids [125]. There are
certain Handbooks written on various aspects of non-linear optics, for
instance, Handbook of non-linear optics [126] and Handbook of Laser Science
and Technology of optical materials [127], Handbooks on photonics
[11,128,129] Also, books are available on subjects like numerical modeling in
nonlinear optics [130], complete study of organic nonlinear optical materials
[45] and polymers [114], as well as recent progress [131] and nonlinear
optical properties of matter [132] and recent survey of NLO materials [32] .
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