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1 online resource (447 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; 1: INTRODUCTION; The Nature of Nonlinearity; Dielectrics; What We Have Left out; Table of Values; 2: THEORY OF LIGHT PROPAGATION; Overview; 2a Maxwell's Equations, the Wave Equation, and Refractive Index; 2b Frequency Dependence of the Refractive Index; 2c Linear Plane Waves or Wavetrains and the Dispersion Relation; 2d The General Relation between P and E; 2e Nonlinear Wavetrains in a Kerr Medium. [6a, 6b, 6g]; 2f Geometric Optics. [6g]; 2g Wavepackets, Group Velocity, Diffraction and Dispersion. [6c, 6h] |
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2h Nonlinear Wavepackets and the Nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) Equation. [3b, 6j]2i Linear and Nonlinear Birefringence; the Coupling of Wavetrains and Wavepackets; 2j Three- and Four-wave Mixing. [6g]; 2k Derivation and ""Universality"" of the NLS Equations. [3b, 6j]; 3: COMMUNICATIONS IN OPTICAL FIBERS AND NONLINEAR WAVEGUIDES; Overview; 3a Communications; 3b Derivation of the NLS Equation for a Light Fiber. [2k, 6j]; 3c Nonlinear Fiber Optics, Possibilities and Challenges, Realities and Practicalities; 3d Review of Waveguiding Principles and the Potential Applications of Waveguides |
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3e Transverse Electric (TE) and Transverse Magnetic (TM) Modes of a Planar Waveguide. [6e]3f Nonlinear Surface and Guided TE Waves: Statics. [6d]; 3g Nonlinear Surface Waves at a Single Interface: Dynamics. [6k]; 3h Nonlinear Guided and Surface TE Waves in a Symmetric Planar Waveguide; 3i TM (Z-Independent) Nonlinear Surface Waves; 4: THE INTERACTION BETWEEN LIGHT AND MATTER; Overview; 4a The Bloch Equations; 4b The Maxwell Equations; 4c The Maxwell-Bloch Equations for A Gas of Two-Level Atoms; 4d Steady-State Response and the Susceptibility Near Resonance; 4e Counter-Propagating Waves |
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4f The Maxwell-Bloch Equations for A Three-level Atom4g Indirect Excitation: Two-Photon Absorption and Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS); 4h Other Nonlinear Mechanisms: The Condensed Phase; 4i Maxwell-Debye Equations; 4j The Born-Oppenheimer (Adiabatic) Approximation; 5: APPLICATIONS; Overview; 5a Lasers; 5b Optical Bistability; 5c Instability and Hysteresis in Distributed Feedback Structures; 5d Coherent Pulse Propagation and Self-Induced Transparency; 5e Stimulated Raman Scattering; 5f Stimulated Brillouin Scattering; 6: MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL METHOD; 6a Perturbation Theory |
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6b Asymptotic Sequences, Expansions6c The Propagation of Linear Dispersive Waves; 6d Snell's Laws; 6e Waveguides; 6f TEMrs Cavity Modes; 6g Nonlinear Oscillators, Wavetrains, and Three- and Four-Wave Mixing, Multiple Scales; 6h Wavepackets, NLS Equation, Three (TWI) and Four (FWI) Wave Interaction Equations; 6i Bifurcation Theory and the Amplitude Equations for a Laser. [5a]; 6j Derivation of the Nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) Equation in a Waveguide; 6k Solitons and the Inverse Scattering Transform. [3b, c]; 61 Chaos and Turbulence; 6m Computational Methods; Program NLSN; REFERENCES |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Nonlinear optics.
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Nonlinear optics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Moloney, Jerome V
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| ISBN |
9780429971396 |
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0429971397 |
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