The book will be divided into 5 sections, each of which is split into chapters, each chapter corresponding to a two-hour course. .The book will begin with a historical chapter where the theoretical advances from Kirchhof's law for the blackbody radiation till Einstein's contributions will be analyzed. The originality of this chapter is that the account gives all the explicit proofs, though in modern physics language. I am not aware of any similar presentation anywhere. .Part I: Matter quantization. Introduces two- and three-level media andtheir basic properties (elements of propagation theory in two-level media, atomic interference in three-level media with EIT and slow light). .Part II: Sine-Gordon solitons. Fully analytic treatment of the SIT and n pi sine-Gordon solitons (n= 0, 2, 4). .Part III: Cavity nonlinear optics. First part will deal with lasers, insisting on time scales and reduced descriptions. Second part deals with optical bistability, first from a device viewpoint, second from a fundamental viewpoint. .Part IV: Weakly nonlinear Chi(2) media. Analytic approachof second harmonic generation (in propagation and in cavities), sum and difference frequency generation, optical parametric oscillators (degenerate or not), all these in ring or Fabry-Perot cavities. .Part V: Weakly nonlinear Chi(3) media. Four wave mixing. Nonlinear Schrodinger equations analytic derivation, fundamental 2 pi solution, higher order solutions.Paul Mandel is the founder and was Head of the Theoretical Nonlinear Optics group at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) until his retirement in 2008. He obtained his academic degrees at the ULB under Professor I. Prigogine. His career was spent with the National Science Foundation of Belgium with full-time research positions. He has been working in quantum and semi-classical opticssince 1971, managing national and European research contracts, and has chaired research conferences in the EU and the USA. Lately, he has been a part-time Professor of Optics at the ULB. He has published over 250 research papers in refereed journals and a book with Cambridge University Press.
- ISBN: 978-3-527-40923-5
- Editorial: Wiley-VCH
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 259
- Fecha Publicación: 24/03/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés