Advances in Optical Physics / Advances in Nonlinear Optics

K. Gao, M. Zhan, WIPM, CAS Wuhan; W. Liu, IoP, CAS Beijing; J. Yin, Y. Chen, ECNU, Shanghai.

1 Recent progresses in weak light nonlinear optics
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Ultraviolet photorefractivity in lithium niobate crystals
1.3 Nonlinear optics with incoherent light and discrete spatial solitons
1.4 Nonlinear optical properties of novel carbon-based materials
1.5 Nonlinear optics from metallic plasmonics
1.6 Summary

2 Polarization-coupling of light in periodically poled lithium niobate based on electro-optics effect
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Polarization-coupling of light in periodically poled lithium niobate
2.3 Cascaded polarization-coupling process and induced large nonlinear phase
2.4 Precise control of parameters of laser based on polarization-coupling
2.5 Photonics application of polarization-coupling effect in PPLN

3 Ultrafast nonlinear optics
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Ultrashort pulse collapse in quadratic media
3.3 Femtosecond laser induced filamentation
3.4 Nonlinear interaction of intense ultrashort filaments
3.5 Ultrafast optical gating by molecular alignment
3.6 Application and prospect

4 Wave coupling theory of linear electrooptical effect and its generalization and applications
4.1 Introduction to linear electrooptical effect
4.2 Wave coupling theory of linear electrooptical effect in bulk transparent media
4.3 Wave coupling theory of linear electrooptical effect in bulk absorbing media
4.4 United wave coupling theory of electrooptical-rotooptical-magnetooptical effects
4.5 Wave coupling theory of quasi-phase-matched linear electrooptical effect