NONLINEAR OPTICS IN NOVEL PERIODIC MEDIA

ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I gratefully acknowledge the constant support, encouragement and training pro-vided by my advisor Dr. Herbert Winful. I have benefited a lot from observing his approach to problem definition and solution. The wide array of problems encoun-tered during my graduate study has certainly been instrumental in sharpening my problem solving skills. I wish to acknowledge my gratitude to my co-advisor Dr. Galvanauskas. Dr. Galvanauskas brings a lot of energy and enthusiasm for fiber lasers and it is very con-tagious. The weekly brainstorming sessions with Dr. Winful and Dr. Galvanauskas were an integral part of my training as a researcher. I wish to acknowledge the support of my doctoral committee. Professors Paul Berman, Tal Carmon and Peter Miller. Professor Carmon’s own interest in stim-ulated Brillouin scattering made our discussions more fruitful to me. Discussions with Natasha Litchinister were especially helpful during the work on metamaterials