Optical Nonlinearities and Bistability. - Theory of optical bistability and optical memory. - Dynamic operation of nonlinear waveguide devices for fast optical switching. - Optical bistability in coupled-cavity semiconductor lasers. - Semiconductor bistable etalons for digital optical computing. - Three photon ionization of Na atoms and related plasma phenomena. - Quantum Wells and Fast Nonlinearities. - Ultrafast dynamical nonlinearities in III-V semiconductors. - Nonlinear optical materials and devices. - Excitonic optical nonlinearities four wave mixing and optical bistability in multiple quantum well structures. - Nonlinear optics of a single slightly-relativistic cyclotron electron. - Principles of optical computing. - Optical associative memory. - Optical computing using phase conjugation. - Nonlinear photorefractive effects and their application in dynamic optical interconnects and image processing. - Materials and Devices. - Ultrafast all-optical switching in optical fibers. - Nonlinear coupling to ZnS ZnO and SDG planar waveguides: theory and experimental study. - Nonlinearity at an interface. - Suggestion for Further Reading. - Polarization instability in crystals with nonlinear anisotropy and nonlinear gyrotropy. - Selected references on optical computing using phase conjugation. Language: English