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Photonics

Linear and Nonlinear Interactions of Laser Light and Matter

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  • © 2007

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Authors:
  1. Ralf Menzel

    1. Institut für Physik, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

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  • Nonlinear phenomena play a more and more important role for everybody using the laser "as a tool"
  • The text is unique in this respect and shows how to use photons from laser light as a nonlinear tool
  • A realm of nonlinear effects can be found in the text
  • About 4000 references listed

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXIII
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  2. Topics in Photonics

    Pages 1-10

  3. Properties and Description of Light

    Pages 11-91

  4. Linear Interactions Between Light and Matter

    Pages 93-171

  5. Nonlinear Interactions of Light and Matter Without Absorption

    Pages 173-261

  6. Nonlinear Interactions of Light and Matter with Absorption

    Pages 263-358

  7. Lasers

    Pages 359-531

  8. Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy

    Pages 533-633

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 635-1024
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About this book

Since the invention of the laser in 1960 there has been an enormous increase in the number of applications of this newly available light and its spectacular properties, and there is no end to this development in sight. In many ?elds of science, technology and medicine laser photons are the driving force of progress. In the near future we will probably experience a further rapid - velopment in this ?eld as a result of the widespread industrial production of semiconductor diode lasers and new nonlinear optical materials. Light from the new lasers may become even cheaper than that from light bulbs. Thus, laser optic devices will in?uence all sectors of private and public life. Thehighpower,highbrightness,narrowbandwidth,goodcoherence,s- cial polarization and/or short pulses of laser light beams enable new appli- tions. Many of these processes will be based on nonlinear optical interactions of the laser light with suitable optical material. In these interactions the - terial is modi?ed by the incident light. The light is then in turn modi?ed by the modi?ed matter. Finally, the nonlinear modi?cation of light as a function of other light becomes possible. Light is modi?ed by light. To use laser light in this sense in science, technology and medicine, kn- ledge from di?erent ?elds of physics, chemistry and engineering is necessary.

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From the reviews of the second edition:

"Menzel covers a narrower subject area in greater depth. We are treated to a comprehensive discussion of linear and nonlinear interactions between light and matter with more of the mathematics than some others offer. … the bibliography that extends over four hundred pages with 67 books for further reading, and more than 6000 references! This is a very nice book for specialists at the post-graduate level and beyond." (Barry Luther-Davis, Australian Physics, Vol. 45 (1), 2008)

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  • Institut für Physik, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

    Ralf Menzel

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