Nonlinear Optics: Basic Concepts

✍ Scribed by Professor D. L. Mills (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 269
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Nonlinear Optics presents the key concepts of this field, within a framework aimed at the non-specialist versed in classical electromagnetic theory. It will provide the foundation necessary for access to the specialized literature. The following topics are covered, with emphasis on the key, basic concepts: - Linear and Nonlinear Optical Response of Dispersive Media, - Nonlinear Wave Mixing, - Response of Nearly Resonant Two Systems, - Linear and Nonlinear Pulse Propagation in Fibers, - Linear and Nonlinear Surface Optics, - Basic Concepts of Magneto Opitcs, - Introduction to Chaotic Response of Systems

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Introductory Remarks....Pages 1-6
Linear Dielectric Response of Matter....Pages 7-35
Nonlinear Dielectric Response of Matter....Pages 37-50
Basic Principles of Nonlinear Wave Interactions: Second Harmonic Generation and Four Wave Mixing....Pages 51-72
Inelastic Scattering of Light from Matter: Stimulated Raman and Brillouin Scattering....Pages 73-92
Interaction of Atoms with Nearly Resonant Fields: Self-Induced Transparency....Pages 93-118
Self-Interaction Effects in One-Dimensional Wave Propagation: Solitons in Optical Fibers and in Periodic Structures....Pages 119-154
Nonlinear Optical Interactions at Surfaces and Interfaces....Pages 155-190
Optical Interactions in Magnetic Materials....Pages 191-221
Chaos....Pages 223-234
Back Matter....Pages 235-263

✦ Subjects

Laser Technology, Photonics;Quantum Optics