Field Guide to Light-Matter Interaction

✍ Scribed by Galina Nemova

• Publisher: SPIE
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 172
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Our understanding of the interaction of light and matter has a long history that evolved from the ancient corpuscular theory to wave theory and finally to the quantum theory. Matter is composed of charged particles, and among these particles are positively charged nuclei surrounded by electrons that are in motion. Light is an oscillating electromagnetic wave. But light is also particles (photons). The primary objective of this Field Guide is to provide the principles of light-matter interaction using classical, semiclassical, and quantum theories. To this end, the guide provides the formulae for, and descriptions of, phenomena that are fundamental to our current state of knowledge of light-matter interaction.

✦ Table of Contents

Copyright
Introduction to the Series
Related Titles from SPIE Press
Table of Contents
Preface
Glossary of Symbols and Acronyms
Introduction
Light: Waves and Particles
Matter
Atoms
Molecules
Gases, Liquids, and Solids
Phonons
Classification of Light–Matter Interaction Processes
Light–Atom, Light–Molecule, and Light–Solid Interaction
Coherence in Light–Atom Interaction
Electromagnetic Field Generation
Light Propagation
Nonlinear Optical Effects
Second-Order Optical Wave Interactions
Third-Order Optical Wave Interactions
Light–Plasma Interaction
Optical Pressure
Equation Summary
Bibliography of Further Reading
Index
About the Author