An Introduction to Nonlinear Optics

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-10

3. Background of Nonlinear Optics

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   Pages 11-37

4. Properties of Optical Media

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   Pages 39-69

5. Nonlinear Phenomena in Passive Media

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6. Nonlinear Optical Phenomena in Active Media

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7. Back Matter

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Many years spent in an industrial engineering laboratory have convinced me that there is ever-increasing need to present recent and current research in forms which can be easily assimilated by engineers, technical managers, and others concerned with applications and the development of new tech­ nology. There is a forbidding gap between the typical research paper, addressed by specialists to other specialists, and the popular-level account addressed to the layman. The second does not adequately prepare the engi­ neer for profitably studying the first; it does not impart sufficient depth of understanding to the manager who must make decisions on the relative merits of various approaches to a problem or on the potential contributions various specialists might make to his program. This book is the outgrowth of a review prepared to fill this need for engineers in a large corporation who were concerned with the industrial application of lasers. That review was written hurriedly, on a fixed budget, to a deadline; consequently, it contained oversimplifications and errors, not all of which were trivial. Nevertheless, the favorable response proved that such a review is indeed needed. It is hoped that this more finished work will prove useful to a wide variety of potential users of laser-centered devices and systems, and may even stimulate the generation of useful ideas.

• Dispersion
• Oscillation
• coherence
• development
• electromagnetic wave
• engine
• growth
• industrial engineering
• laser
• nonlinear optics
• optics
• research
• scattering

• Division of Nuclear Engineering and Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA

  George C. Baldwin

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