Advances in Optical Physics: Volume 3 Advances in Nonlinear Optics

✍ Scribed by Xianfeng Chen; Guoquan Zhang; Heping Zeng; Qi Guo; Weilong She; Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 382
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents an overview of the state of the art of the developing topic of nonlinear optics with contributions from leading experts in the field in China, ranging from weak light nonlinear optics, ultrafast nonlinear optics to electro-optical theory and applications.

In the past decade, nonlinear optics has evolved into many different branches, depending on the form of the material used for studying the nonlinear phenomena. The growth of research in nonlinear optics is closely linked to the rapid technological advances that have occurred in related fields, such as ultra-fast phenomena and optical communications. Nonlinear-optics activities range from the fundamental studies of the interaction between matter and radiation to the development of devices, components, and systems of tremendous commercial interest for widespread applications in optical telecommunications, medicine, and biotechnology. This book reviews the development of some nonlinear optics researches in China, not only the discovery of new principles, but also potential applications of nonlinear optics for various industries.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
1 Recent progresses on weak-light nonlinear optics
1.1 Ultraviolet photorefraction in LiNbO3
1.1.1 Ultraviolet photorefractive materials, their effects and applications
1.1.2 Ultraviolet photorefractive effects in LiNbO3
1.1.3 Ultraviolet band edge photorefractive effects
1.1.4 Enhancement on ultraviolet light-induced absorption
1.1.5 Absorption edge and related defect structures in LiNbO3
1.1.6 Other effects and applications in the ultraviolet spectral range
1.2 Incoherent nonlinear optics and discrete spatial solitions
1.2.1 From coherent to incoherent light
1.2.2 From bulk to discrete media
1.2.3 Introduction to spatial optical solitons
1.2.4 Nonlinear optics with incoherent light
1.2.5 Spatial solitons in discrete systems
1.3 Nonlinear optical properties of novel carbon-based materials
1.3.1 Carbon-based materials
1.3.2 Progress of optical nonlinearities of carbon-based materials
1.3.3 Optical nonlinearities of carbon nanotube and its hybrid materials
1.3.4 Optical nonlinearities of graphene and its hybrid materials
1.4 Nonlinear optics from metallic plasmonics
1.4.1 Introduction to surface plasmonic polariton
1.4.2 Nonlinear processes in metals
1.4.3 Metallic plasmon-enhanced second-harmonic generation
1.4.4 Metallic plasmon-enhanced third-order nonlinear optics
1.4.5 Metallic plasmon-enhanced nonliner optical activity
1.5 Summary
2 Polarization coupling and its applications in periodically poled lithium niobate crystal
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Polarization-coupling theory based on transverse electro-optical effect
2.2.1 Transverse electro-optical effect
2.2.2 Jones matrix method
2.2.3 Polarization-couplingmode theory
2.3 Tunable wavelength filter and optical switch based on polarization-coupling effect
2.3.1 Solc-type filter based on polarization-coupling effect in PPLN crystal
2.3.2 Tunable multiwavelength filter by local-temperature-control technique
2.3.3 Flat-top bandpass Solc-type filter and optical switch in PPLN crystal
2.4 Control of linear polarization and its applications
2.4.1 The evolution of the polarization state in the PPLN and the control of linear polarization state via electro-optical effect
2.4.2 Linear polarization state modulator
2.4.3 Electro-optic chirality control in PPLN
2.4.4 Optical isolator based on the electro-optic effect in HPPLN
2.4.5 Polarization based all-optical logic gates
2.5 Control of angular momentum and its applications
2.5.1 The angular momentum of light
2.5.2 The evolution of polarization state of light by changing electric field
2.5.3 Control of spin angular momentum of light
2.5.4 Control of orbital angular momentum and its applications
2.6 Polarization-coupling cascading and its applications in PPLN crystal
2.6.1 Second-harmonic generation (SHG) cascading
2.6.2 Polarization-coupling cascading and nonlinear phase shift
2.6.3 Cross-modulation
2.6.4 Fast and slow light
3 Ultrafast nonlinear optics
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Cascaded quadratic nonlinearity and spatiotemporal modulational instability
3.2.1 Two-dimensional (2D) multicolored transverse arrays
3.2.2 2D multicolored up-converted parametric amplification
3.2.3 Colored conical emission (CCE)
3.2.4 Seeded amplification of colored conical emission (SAC)
3.2.5 Carrier envelope phase stabilization via difference frequency generation
3.3 Interaction of intense ultrashort filaments
3.3.1 Filament-interaction-induced nonlinear spatiotemporal coupling
3.3.2 1D plasma channels
3.3.3 Plasma grating
3.3.4 2D plasma grating
3.3.5 Third harmonics generation enhancement
3.4 Molecular alignment assisted filament interaction
3.5 Ultrafast optical gating by molecular alignment
3.6 Conclusions
4 Nonlocal spatial optical solitons
4.1 Introduction to optical soliton research
4.1.1 Historical background of optical solitons
4.1.2 Optical Kerr effect and its spatial and temporal nonlocality
4.1.3 Nonlinear propagation model of optical envelope: The nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger equation
4.1.4 Soliton solutions and their physical essence
4.2 The phenomenological theory of the nonlocal spatial solitons
4.2.1 The classification of the nonlocality
4.2.2 The Snyder–Mitchellmodel
4.2.3 The weak-nonlocality
4.2.4 The general nonlocality
4.2.5 Interaction of double solitons
4.3 Nematicons
4.3.1 Nonlinear propagation models of beams in the nematic liquid crystal
4.3.2 The voltage-controllable nonlinear characteristic length and the nonlinear refractive index coefficient
4.3.3 The propagation model of the liquid crystal in strong nonlocal condition
4.3.4 The approximate analytical solution of a single nematicon
4.4 The thermal nonlinear nonlocality
4.4.1 Spatial optical solitons in the lead glass
4.4.2 Other thermal nonlinear materials
5 Wave coupling theory and its applications of linear electro-optic (EO) effect
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Wave coupling theory of linear EO effect in transparent bulk crystal
5.3 Wave coupling theory of linear EO effect in absorbent medium
5.4 Wave coupling theory of mutual action of linear EO, OA, and Faraday effects
5.5 Wave coupling theory of QPM linear EO effect
5.5.1 Wave coupling theory of Linear EO effect in periodically poled crystals
5.5.2 Linear EO effect in linear chirped-periodically poled crystals
5.5.3 Wave coupling theory of united effect of QPM linear EO effect, second-harmonic generation, and sum/difference frequency generation
5.5.4 Wave coupling theory of QPM linear EO effect for a focused Gaussian beam
Index