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Light-Driven Alignment

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Authors:
  1. Boris P. Antonyuk

    1. Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Russia

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  • Deals with a new method to control electron transport by light to control material formation processes in a new way
  • Summarizes the current state of the art in light-driven alignment
  • A reference work for researchers and engineers alike
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences (SSOS, volume 141)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-8

  3. Light-Driven Ordering: Theory

    Pages 9-27

  4. Domain Charge Structure of Amorphous Semiconductor

    Pages 29-44

  5. Light-Driven Spatial Ordering in Random Media

    Pages 45-75

  6. Light-Driven Orientational Ordering in Random Media

    Pages 77-94

  7. Self-Organization in Ge-Doped Silica Fibers and Second Harmonic Generation

    Pages 95-137

  8. Optical Motor: Toward the Model of Life Emerging on Earth

    Pages 139-153

  9. Electron Acceleration by Petawatt Light Pulses

    Pages 155-159

  10. Light-Driven Temporal Self-Organization

    Pages 161-186

  11. Light-Driven Bistability of Molecular Crystals

    Pages 187-197

  12. Charge Transfer Excitons in Soft Matter

    Pages 199-232

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 233-241
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This book discusses how, in random media, light dramatically changes electron– electron interaction. Despite Coulomb repulsion, the effective interaction dem- strates attraction, even under strong pumping. Light (both coherent and natural) acts like an optical motor, transporting electrons in a direction opposite to that of the electric force direction: electric current ?ows against bias and static polarization is aligned in opposition to the applied electric ?eld. The uncommon electron transport increases the initial perturbations and is the foundation of the light-driven struct- ing of a matter. This structuring belongs to the class of self-organization phenomena of open dissipative systems and exhibits a number of fascinating properties. Light pushes electrons into spatially ordered macroscopic bunches observed in fused silica under ArF-laser irradiation. It carves material balls with ?xed diameters equal to 2 microns and throws them out of the ablation crater. Moderate light int- sity drills material, forming long channels that align with the wave vector and drill diameters can be as small as 2 microns, while the beam spot is a few millimeters. Bicolor excitation causes orientational ordering in random media. We monitored the induced transformation by measuring the emerged second harmonic signal. The orientational ordering has been used for all optical poling of glasses. Light tre- ment prepares phase-matched grating of second-order nonlinear susceptibility and provides effective second harmonic generation. All optical poling was performed in bulk materials and ?bers.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Russia

    Boris P. Antonyuk

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Light-Driven Alignment

  • Authors: Boris P. Antonyuk

  • Series Title: Springer Series in Optical Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69888-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-69887-6Published: 10 October 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-08933-6Published: 22 November 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-69888-3Published: 26 September 2008

  • Series ISSN: 0342-4111

  • Series E-ISSN: 1556-1534

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 244

  • Number of Illustrations: 119 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices

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