INSULATING MATERIALS FOR OPTOELECTRONICS: NEW DEVELOPMENTS

This review volume presents new developments in thepreparation, physical characterization and applications of insulatingmaterials for Optoelectronics. Insulators occupy a leading position aslaser and optical amplifier hosts, electrooptic and acoustoopticmodulators, frequency doublers and optical parametric oscillators,photorefractive devices and radiator detectors. These applicationsrely heavily on the development of advanced techniques for thepreparation of both bulk and waveguide structures, the adequateknowledge of the microscopic behaviour defects, impurities and athorough understanding of their response to electromagneticfields. All these topics relating basic physicochemical aspects andapplied performance are authoritatively discussed in the book.