Nonlinear Optics and Optical Physics

by Khoo, Iam-Choon; Lam, Juan Francesco; Simoni, Francesco

• ISBN13: 9789810209674
• ISBN10: 9810209673
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-11-01
• Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

Table of Contents

Preface
Interaction of Atoms with Very Intense Fields	p. 1
Spin-Orbit Interaction of a Photon in an Inhomogeneous Medium	p. 61
Photoinduced Magnetic Kerr Rotation in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors	p. 83
Local Field Corrections in Linear and Nonlinear Optics	p. 104
Electromagnetic Vacuum Confinement Effects in the Optical Microscopic Cavity	p. 123
Radiative Renormalization Applied to Strong Field, Resonant Nonlinear Optical Interactions	p. 139
Prospects For X-ray Nonlinear Optics	p. 156
Principal Nonresonant Optical Nonlinearities of Nematic and Isotropic Liquid Crystals	p. 176
Nonlinear Photonics in Crystalline Organic Multiple Quantum Wells	p. 211
Ultrafast All-Optical Waveguide Switching	p. 234
Resonant Phase Conjugation	p. 268
Photorefractive Nonlinear Optics and Applications	p. 341
Optical Parametric Oscillators	p. 389
Generation of Femtosecond Laser Pulses and Application to Nonlinear Optics	p. 410
The Optics of Porous Glasses	p. 441
Periodic Alternation, Chaotic Itinerancy and Space-Time Chaos in Optics: Patterns and Topological Defects	p. 462
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