All-Optical Signal Processing: Data Communication and Storage Applications

Preface.- Pulse shaping and optical arbitrary waveform generation.- Temporal and spectral nonlinear pulse shaping methods in optical fibers.- Materials and structures for waveguide nonlinear photonics.- Optical regeneration.- All-optical nonlinear guided wave switching.- Wideband and noise-inhibited signal manipulation in dispersion engineered parametric mixers.- Slow light enhanced nonlinear optics in integrated semiconductors.- Energy-efficient optical signal processing using optical time lenses.- Photonic signal processing for logic and computation.- Optical information capacity processing.- Ultrafast optical techniques for communication networks and signal processing.- Quantum frequency conversion.- Photonic quantum information processing using nonlinear optics.- Nonlinear polarizabilities and optical signal processing in chip-scale graphene-silicon optoelectronics.- Harnessing nonlinear optics for microwave signal processing.- All-optical signal processing versus o-e-o conversion plus electronic processing.- All-optical pulse shaping for highest spectral efficiency.