Nonlinear Optics and Laser Emission through Random Media

• Main Author: Folli, Viola (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Physics.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Electronic circuits.; Electronic Circuits and Devices.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.; Optics and Electrodynamics.

Disorder is everywhere, inherently present in nature, and is commonly believed to be a synonymous with disturbance. As a consequence, the methodical and customary study of the dynamics of the electromagnetic field, both in the linear and nonlinear optical regimes, leans to rule out it from the treat...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Prof. Dr. Claudio Conti
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction.- 1.1 Light and Nonlinearity
• 1.2 Light and Disorder
• 1.3 Overview of this thesis
• Part I: Non-resonant systems
• 2 Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation
• 3 Weakly Disordered Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation
• 4 Disordered Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation.- 5 Scale-Free Nonlinearity in Disordered Ferroelectrics.-  Part II: Resonant systems
• 6 The Maxwell-Bloch equations
• 7 Disordered Maxwell-Bloch Equations.- 8 Glassy Behavior of Laser
• 9 The Granular Laser
• 10 Conclusions.