1. reviewed in Peyghamberian, N. and Koch, S.W. (1990) ‘Semiconductor Nonlinear Materials’, in Gibbs, H.M., Khitrova, G. and Peyghamberian, N. (eds.), Nonlinear Photonics, Springer-Verlag, New York, pp. 7–60
2. reviewed with extensive references in: Stegeman, G.I. and Miller, A., “Physics of all-optical switching devices”, book chapter in Photonic Switching. Vol I, ed. J. Midwinter, (Academic Press, Orlando, 1992), 81–146 (1993).
3. Stegeman, G.I., Villeneuve, A., Kang, J., Aitchison, J.S., Ironside, C.N., Al-hemyari, K., Yang, C.C., Lin, C-H., Lin, H-H., Kennedy, G.T., Grant, R.S. and Sibbett, W., “AlGaAs Below Half Bandgap: The Silicon of Nonlinear Optical Materials”, J. of Nonlinear Optical Physics, in press
4. see for example Marcuse, D. (1974) Theory of Dielectric Optical Waveguides, Academic Press, New York; numerous articles in (1990) T. Tamir (ed.) Guided-Wave Optoelectronics, 2nd ed., Vol 26 in Electronics and Photonics, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
5. for example Saad, S. M. (1985) ‘Review of numerical methods for the analysis of arbitrary shaped microwave and optical dielectric waveguides’, IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Technique, MTT-33, pp. 894–899.