Quantum Nonlinear Optics

✍ Scribed by Professor Eiichi Hanamura Dr., Professor Yutaka Kawabe Dr., Professor Akio Yamanaka Dr. (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 240
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This graduate-level textbook gives an introductory overview of the fundamentals of quantum nonlinear optics. Based on the quantum theory of radiation, Quantum Nonlinear Optics incorporates the exciting developments in novel nonlinear responses of materials (plus laser oscillation and superradiance) developed over the past decade. It deals with the organization of radiation field, interaction between electronic system and radiation field, statistics of light, mutual manipulation of light and matter, laser oscillation, dynamics of light, nonlinear optical response, and nonlinear spectroscopy, as well as ultrashort and ultrastrong laser pulse. Also considered are Q-switching, mode locking and pulse compression. Experimental and theoretical aspects are intertwined throughout.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Quantization of the Radiation Field....Pages 1-30
Interaction Between the Electron and the Radiation Field....Pages 31-55
Statistical Properties of Light....Pages 57-74
Laser Oscillation....Pages 75-98
Dynamics of Light....Pages 99-134
Nonlinear Optical Responses I....Pages 135-190
Nonlinear Optical Responses II....Pages 191-223
Back Matter....Pages 225-234

✦ Subjects

Laser Technology and Physics, Photonics; Quantum Optics, Quantum Electronics, Nonlinear Optics