Front Cover; Progress in Optics, Volume XII; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; CHAPTER I. SELF-FOCUSING, SELF-TRAPPING, AND SELF-PHASE MODULATION OF LASER BEAMS; 1. Introduction; 2. Physical Mechanisms of Nonlinear Polarization; 3. Wave Propagation; 4. Conclusions; References; CHAPTER II. SELF-INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; 1. Introduction; 2. Coherent Optical Pulse in a Two-Level Absorber; 3. Experiments; 4. Variations of SIT; References; CHAPTER III. MODULATION TECHNIQUES IN SPECTROMETRY; 1. Introduction; 2. Why Modulate a Spectrum?; 3. Spectromodulators and Interferometers: Analogous Instruments.
1. Introduction2. Mean Field Theory of Laser Media; 3. Beyond the Mean Field Theory; 4. Discrete Mode Spectra; 5. Discrete Modes in Nonlinear Optics; Appendix I; Appendix II; 6. Note added in proof; Acknowledgments; References; CHAPTER VI. BEAM-FOIL SPECTROSCOPY; 1. Introduction; 2. Spectral Line Shapes; 3. Wavelength Studies and Energy-Level Schemes; 4. Doubly-Excited Levels; 5. Metastable One-Electron Levels; 6. Mean-Life Measurements; 7. Applications of Lifetime Data; 8. Coherence and Alignment; 9. Charge-State Identification; 10. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; AUTHOR INDEX.
4. When should Spectral Modulation Techniques be used -- and When should they not?5. Theory of the Hadamard Transform Spectrometers; 6. Spectrometric Imaging; 7. A Survey of Binary-Encoded Multiplex Spectrometers; 8. Some Practical Considerations in Comparing Interferometers and Spectromodulators; 9. Some Unsolved Problems in Transform Spectrometry; 10. Conclusions; Acknowledgments; Appendix A. Some Properties of Cyclic Codes for Hadamard-Transform Spectrometry; Appendix B. Cyclic Codes for Hadamard-Transform Spectrometry; Appendix C. Code Optimization; References.
CHAPTER IV. INTERACTION OF LIGHT WITH MONOMOLECULAR DYE LAYERS1. Introduction; 2. Preparation of Monolayer Systems; 3. Optical Properties of Cadmium-Arachidate Layers; 4. Coherent Scattering at a Dye Monolayer; 5. Standing Light Waves; 6. Evanescent Light Waves; 7. The Near Field of a Radiating Molecule; 8. The Radiation Pattern of a Fluorescing Molecule in Front of a Mirror; 9. Fluorescence Decay Time of a Molecule in Front of a Mirror; Appendix. Some Optical Properties of Uniaxial Crystals; Acknowledgments; References; CHAPTER V. THE PHASE TRANSITION CONCEPT AND COHERENCE IN ATOMIC EMISSION.