Beam Shaping and Control with Nonlinear Optics

The field of nonlinear optics, which has undergone a very rapid development since the discovery of lasers in the early sixties, continues to be an active and rapidly developing - search area. The interest is mainly due to the potential applications of nonlinear optics: - rectly in telecommunications...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Kajzar, F. (Editor), Reinisch, R. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 1998.
Series:NATO Science Series: B:, Advanced Science Institutes Series, 369
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Table of Contents:
  • to Nonlinear Optics: A Selected Overview
  • to Ultrafast and Cumulative Nonlinear Absorption and Nonlinear Refraction
  • From Dipolar Molecular Engineering to Multipolar Photonic Engineering in Nonlinear Optics
  • Molecule Orientation Techniques
  • Nonlinear Pulse Propagation Along Quantum Well in a Semiconductor Microcavity
  • Some Aspects of the Theory of Light-Induced Kinetic Effects in Gases
  • Temporal and Spatial Solitons: An Overview
  • Spatial Solitons in Quadratic Nonlinear Media
  • Phototorefractive Spatial Solitons
  • Sub-Cycle Pulses and Field Solitons: Near- and Sub-Femtosecond Em-Bubbles
  • Nonlinear Waveguiding Optics
  • Quadratic Cascading: Effects and Applications
  • Nonlinear Optical Frequency Conversion: Material Requirements, Engineered Materials, and Quasi-Phasematching
  • Low-Power Short Wavelength Coherent Sources: Technologies and Applications
  • Artificial Mesoscopic Materials for Nonlinear Optics.