Light-Driven Alignment

✍ Scribed by Professor Dr. Boris P. Antonyuk (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 246
• Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences 141
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book deals with influencing the properties of solids by light-driven electron transport. The theoretical basis of these effects, light-driven ordering and self-organisation, as well as optical motors are presented. With light as a tool, new ways to produce materials are opened.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Light-Driven Ordering: Theory....Pages 9-27
Domain Charge Structure of Amorphous Semiconductor....Pages 29-44
Light-Driven Spatial Ordering in Random Media....Pages 45-75
Light-Driven Orientational Ordering in Random Media....Pages 77-94
Self-Organization in Ge-Doped Silica Fibers and Second Harmonic Generation....Pages 95-137
Optical Motor: Toward the Model of Life Emerging on Earth....Pages 139-153
Electron Acceleration by Petawatt Light Pulses....Pages 155-159
Light-Driven Temporal Self-Organization....Pages 161-186
Light-Driven Bistability of Molecular Crystals....Pages 187-197
Charge Transfer Excitons in Soft Matter....Pages 199-232
Back Matter....Pages 233-241

✦ Subjects

Applied Optics, Optoelectronics, Optical Devices