Extreme Nonlinear Optics An Introduction /

• Main Author: Wegener, Martin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Advanced Texts in Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Gravitation.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Quantum optics.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Engineering.; Optics and Electrodynamics.; Engineering, general.; Quantum Optics.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.

Following the birth of the laser in 1960, the field of "nonlinear optics" rapidly emerged. Today, laser intensities and pulse durations are readily available, for which the concepts and approximations of traditional nonlinear optics no longer apply. In this regime of "extreme nonlinea...

Table of Contents:

• Selected Aspects of Few-Cycle Laser Pulses and Nonlinear Optics
• The Lorentz Oscillator Model and Beyond …
• The Drude Free-Electron Model and Beyond …
• Lorentz Becomes Drude: Bound—Unbound Transitions
• Accounting for Propagation Effects
• Extreme Nonlinear Optics of Semiconductors and Isolators
• Extreme Nonlinear Optics of Atoms and Electrons.