Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Optics, and Ultrafast Phenomena with X-Rays: Physics with X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers

✍ Scribed by B. W. Adams (auth.), Bernhard W. Adams (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 347
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Optics, and Ultrafast Phenomena with X-Rays is an introduction to cutting-edge science that is beginning to emerge on state-of-the-art synchrotron radiation facilities and will come to flourish with the x-ray free-electron lasers currently being planned.

It is intended for the use by scientists at synchrotron radiation facilities working with the combination of x-rays and lasers and those preparing for the science at x-ray free-electron lasers. In the past decade synchrotron radiation sources have experienced a tremendous increase in their brilliance and other figures of merit.

This progress, driven strongly by the scientific applications, is still going on and may actually be accelerating with the advent of x-ray free-electron lasers. As a result, a confluence of x-ray and laser physics is taking place, due to the increasing importance of laser concepts, such as coherence and nonlinear optics to the x-ray community and the importance of x-ray optics to the laser-generation of ultrashort pulses of x-rays.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
X-Ray Sources....Pages 1-17
Nonlinear Optics of Free Electrons....Pages 19-33
Dynamical Diffraction....Pages 35-90
Ultrafast Diffractive X-Ray Optics....Pages 91-108
Parametric Down Conversion....Pages 109-158
Laser Pump, X-Ray Probe Spectroscopy on Gaas....Pages 159-174
Ultrafast Structural Changes Induced by Femtosecond Laser Pulses....Pages 175-214
Ultrafast Lattice Dynamics in Solids Prob] by Time-Resolved X-Ray Diffraction....Pages 215-240
Seeing Sound: Measuring Acoustic Pulse Propagation with X-Ray....Pages 241-265
Time-Dependent Dynamical Diffraction Theory for Phonon-Type Distortions....Pages 267-286
Nonlinear Response Functions for X-Ray Laser Pulses....Pages 287-302
Back Matter....Pages 303-330

✦ Subjects

Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices