Proceedings of the International Summer School, Aalborg, Denmark, July 31-August 4, 1989
edited by Ole Keller.
Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1990
(ix, 351 pages 139 illustrations).
Springer series on wave phenomena, 9.
The Exotic World of Nonlinear Optics --; I Basic Macroscopic Concepts --; Second Order Nonlinear Optical Effects --; II Cavity Phenomena --; Cavity QED --; Superradiance in the Dicke Model --; III Metals, Superconductors, and Ponderomotive Effects --; Surface Enhanced Second Harmonic Generation from Metals --; Optical Second-Harmonic Generation from Jellium. The Nonlinear Energy Reflection Coefficient as a Function of the Angle of Incidence --; On the Nonlocal Response Theory of Optical Rectification and Second-Harmonic Generation in Centrosymmetric Superconductors --; Coherence Factors in the Optical Second-Harmonic Response Tensor of a Cooper-Paired Superconductor --; Physical Picture of Parametric Phenomena and Ponderomotive Effects in Solids --; IV Guiding Structures: Surfaces and Fibres --; Light Scattering from Solid Surfaces --; Second Harmonic Generation in Optical Fibres --; Two-Wavelength Nonlinear Prism Coupling to Planar Waveguides in Semiconductor Doped Glasses --; V Semiconductors --; The Nonlinear Optics of Semiconductor Quantum Wells: Physics and Devices --; Transient Nonlinear Optics in Semiconductors --; Phase Conjugation --; Theory of Four-Wave Mixing in Photorefractive Oscillators --; Optical Bistability --; Nonlinear Optical Properties of ZnO at Room Temperature Investigated by Laser-Induced Self-Diffraction --; VI Organic Materials --; Nonlinear Optical Effects in Organic Materials --; Nonlinear Optical Effects in Substituted Anilines --; VII Disordered Media --; Weak Localization in Nonlinear Optics of Disordered Media --; VIII Photon Echoes, Raman Line Shapes --; Optical Data Storage and Image Processing in Rare Earth Ion Doped Crystals Using Stimulated Photon Echo --; A Practical Analysis for Coherent Raman Scattering Spectra by the Fourier Series Method --; Index of Contributors.
The broad-based coverage of this book stretches from the basic physical principles of nonlinear interaction of light with condensed matter to topics of current research interest. It provides a balanced treatment of theoretical and experimental aspects of the following subjects: - nonlinear optics of semiconductor quantum wells, disordered media, surfaces, metals, and organic solids; - nonlinear effects in fibers; - optical phase conjugation; - field quantization and the production of nonclassical light; - cavity quantum electrodynamics; - radiation pressure in nonlinear optics; - Brillouin scattering from opaque surfaces; - optical bistability.