Nonlinear Optics (eBook)

GEORGE I. STEGEMAN, PhD, is Chair Professor in the College of Engineering at KFUPM, Saudi Arabia, and Emeritus Professor at the College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL) of the University of Central Florida (UCF). He is the first recipient of the Cobb Family Eminent Chair in Optical Sciences and Engineering at UCF. Dr. Stegeman is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and has received the Canadian Association of Physicists's Herzberg Medal for achievement in physics and the Optical Society of America's R.W. Wood Prize. ROBERT A. STEGEMAN, PhD, has held professional positions at the College of Optical Sciences at The University of Arizona, as well as various industrial companies.

Preface xi

1. Introduction 1

Part A: Second-Order Phenomena 15

2. Second-Order Susceptibility and Nonlinear Coupled Wave Equations 17

3. Optimization and Limitations of Second-Order Parametric Processes 39

4. Solutions for Plane-Wave Parametric Conversion Processes 69

5. Second Harmonic Generation with Finite Beams and Applications 86

6. Three-Wave Mixing, Optical Amplifiers, and Generators 108

7. X ¯(2) Materials and Their Characterization 141

Part B: Nonlinear Susceptibilities 159

8. Second- and Third-Order Susceptibilities Quantum Mechanical Formation 161

9. Molecular Nonlinear Optics 197

Part C. Third-Order Phenomena 225

10. Kerr Nonlinear Absorption and Refraction 227

11. Condensed Matter Third-Order Nonlinearities due to Electron Transitions 251

12. Miscellaneous Third-Order Nonlinearities 290

13. Techniques for Measuring Third-Order Nonlinearities 330

14. Ramification and Applications of Nonlinear Refraction 347

15. Multiwave Mixing 384

16. Stimulated Scattering 414

17. Ultrafast and Ultrahigh Intensity Processes 443

Appendix: Units, Notation, and Physical Constants 465

Index 469