Beam Shaping and Control with Nonlinear Optics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction to Nonlinear Optics: A Selected Overview

   • George I. Stegeman

   Pages 1-35

3. Introduction to Ultrafast and Cumulative Nonlinear Absorption and Nonlinear Refraction

   • Eric W. Van Stryland

   Pages 37-75

4. From Dipolar Molecular Engineering to Multipolar Photonic Engineering in Nonlinear Optics

   • J. Zyss, S. Brasselet

   Pages 77-100

5. Molecule Orientation Techniques

   • François Kajzar, Jean - Michel Nunzi

   Pages 101-132

6. Nonlinear Pulse Propagation Along Quantum Well in a Semiconductor Microcavity

   • V. M. Agranovich, A. M. Kamchatnov, H. Benisty, C. Weisbuch

   Pages 133-147

7. Some Aspects of the Theory of Light-Induced Kinetic Effects in Gases

   • Stanislaw Kryszewski

   Pages 149-182

8. Temporal and Spatial Solitons: An Overview

   • A D Boardman, P Bontemps, T Koutoupes, K Xie

   Pages 183-228

9. Spatial Solitons in Quadratic Nonlinear Media

   • Lluís Torner

   Pages 229-258

10. Phototorefractive Spatial Solitons

    • Mordechai Segev, Bruno Crosignani, Paolo. Di Porto, Ming-feng Shih, Zhigang Chen, Matthew Mitchell et al.

    Pages 259-290

11. Sub-Cycle Pulses and Field Solitons: Near- and Sub-Femtosecond Em-Bubbles

    • A. E. Kaplan, S. F. Straub, P. L. Shkolnikov

    Pages 291-317

12. Nonlinear Waveguiding Optics

    • R. Reinisch

    Pages 319-340

13. Quadratic Cascading: Effects and Applications

    • Gaetano Assanto

    Pages 341-374

14. Nonlinear Optical Frequency Conversion: Material Requirements, Engineered Materials, and Quasi-Phasematching

    • M. M. Fejer

    Pages 375-406

15. Low-Power Short Wavelength Coherent Sources: Technologies and Applications

    • D. B. Ostrowsky

    Pages 407-426

16. Artificial Mesoscopic Materials for Nonlinear Optics

    • C. Flytzanis

    Pages 427-463

17. Back Matter

    Pages 465-475

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The field of nonlinear optics, which has undergone a very rapid development since the discovery of lasers in the early sixties, continues to be an active and rapidly developing - search area. The interest is mainly due to the potential applications of nonlinear optics: - rectly in telecommunications for high rate data transmission, image processing and recognition or indirectly from the possibility of obtaining large wavelength range tuneable lasers for applications in industry, medicine, biology, data storage and retrieval, etc. New phenomena and materials continue to appear regularly, renewing the field. This has proven to be especially true over the last five years. New materials such as organics have been developed with very large second- and third-order nonlinear optical responses. Imp- tant developments in the areas of photorefractivity, all optical phenomena, frequency conv- sion and electro-optics have been observed. In parallel, a number of new phenomena have been reported, some of them challenging the previously held concepts. For example, solitons based on second-order nonlinearities have been observed in photorefractive materials and frequency doubling crystals, destroying the perception that third order nonlinearities are - quired for their generation and propagation. New ways of creating and manipulating nonl- ear optical materials have been developed. An example is the creation of highly nonlinear (second-order active) polymers by static electric field, photo-assisted or all-optical poling. Nonlinear optics involves, by definition, the product of electromagnetic fields. As a con- quence, it leads to the beam control.

• Phase
• communication
• crystal
• optics
• polymer
• polymers
• telecommunications

• Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

  F. Kajzar

• Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France

  R. Reinisch

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