Nonlinear Optics: Principles and Applications

✍ Scribed by Chunfei Li

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 399
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book reflects the latest advances in nonlinear optics. Besides the simple, strict mathematical deduction, it also discusses the experimental verification and possible future applications, such as the all-optical switches. It consistently uses the practical unit system throughout.

It employs simple physical images, such as "light waves" and "photons" to systematically explain the main principles of nonlinear optical effects. It uses the first-order nonlinear wave equation in frequency domain under the condition of “slowly varying amplitude approximation" and the classical model of the interaction between the light and electric dipole. At the same time, it also uses the rate equations based on the energy-level transition of particle systems excited by photons and the energy and momentum conservation principles to explain the nonlinear optical phenomenon.

The book is intended for researchers, engineers and graduate students in the field of optics, optoelectronics, fiber communication, information technology and materials etc.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction....Pages 1-22
Polarization Theory of Nonlinear Medium....Pages 23-50
Optical Three-Wave Coupling Processes....Pages 51-88
Optical Four-Wave Coupling Process....Pages 89-107
Optical Kerr Effect and Self-focusing....Pages 109-147
Nonlinear Stimulated Scattering....Pages 149-175
Nonlinear Absorption and Refraction of Light....Pages 177-214
Optical Bistability and Its Instability....Pages 215-250
Propagation of Light Pulse in Fiber and Optical Soliton....Pages 251-278
All-Optical Switch Based on Nonlinear Optics....Pages 279-386