Nonlinear Microwave Signal Processing: Towards a New Range of Devices

This book is the result of the contributions coming from the more than thirty key rd speakers of the 3 international Workshop on Nonlinear Microwave Magnetics held in th Roma, Italy from the 3rd to the 6 of October 1995. Since the 1990, in Ulyanovsk, when the Russian Academy of Sciences promoted the first Workshop of the series, the basic idea was to have a sort of Institutional Meeting collecting Scientists of the Magnetics Community devoted to Spin Wave Electronics at Microwave Frequencies. It was a succesful organization, and the birth of an effective interaction between eastern and western researchers overcame the meaning of the Workshop itself. Three years later, in Irvine, California, 1993, the Spin Wave Community was joined again. It was clear that the growing interest on hot topics of Nonlinear Microwave Magnetics involving both, applicative and fundamental aspects of microwave magnetic media, favoured the organization of further meetings on the same subject. So far, during the social dinner, in the middle between a serious proposal and the joke encouraged by the Californian Wine, Roma was proposed as the third place for the Workshop. Day after day, the joke became serious, and it was possible to solve the financial and logistic problems in time for the predicted deadline.

Zusammenfassung
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Rome, Italy, 3-6 October, 1996

Inhalt
I. Classical and Novel Nonlinear Effects, Applications in Different Physical Systems.- 1. Notes on the Problem of Magnetization Reversal.- 2. An Overview of Nonlinear Microwave and Millimeter Wave Generation in Magnetic, Acoustic and Electromagnetic Distributed Nonlinear Physical Systems.- 3. Inhomogeneous Internal Field Distribution in Planar Microwave Ferrite Devices.- 4. Design of Nonlinear Transmission Lines: GaAs and Magnetic Film Devices.- 5. Nonlinear Dynamics of Optical Solitons.- II. Spin Wave Instabilities.- 6. Theory of Spin-Wave Interactions in Heisenberg Ferromagnetic Thin Films.- 7. Kinetic Instability and Bose Condensation of Magnons- The Sources of Controlled Microwave Emission from Magnetic Crystals.- 8. Exchange Spin Waves in Nonuniform Films of Yttrium Iron Garnet.- 9. Parametric Instability of Spin Waves in Ferromagnets under a Spatially Localized Longitudinal Magnetic Pump Field.- 10. Spatial Nonuniformity and Spin Wave Turbulence in Antiferromagnet.- III. Solitions and Chaos.- 11. Microwave Solitons in Magnetic Media: a Review of Fundamental Properties.- 12. Soliton-Iikc Packets of Parametrically Coupled Spin-Waves.- 13. Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling of Solitons in Ultrathin Films.- 14. Controllong Chaos in Thin YIG Films at Microwave Frequencies.- 15. Suppressing and controlling Chaos in Spin-Wave Instabilities.- IV. Magneto-Optic Interaction: Non-linear Effects and Devices.- 16. Applications of Magnetic Garnet Films in Optical Communication.- 17. Interactions Between Optical Guided Modes and Nonlinear Magnetostatic Waves.- 18. Integrated Magnetooptic Devices with Applications to RF Signal Processing and Communications.