Nonlinear Optics

Presents the most updated edition of this classic, respected reference on nonlinear optics, with a new chapter on quantum optics

Robert W. Boyd (Author)

9780323850575, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 17 July 2020

634 pages
23.4 x 19 x 3.5 cm, 1.43 kg

"This comprehensive lecture-based book is pleasant and contains careful discussions on a large number of topics dealing with the multifaceted aspects of nonlinear optics. The fourth edition has been updated to capture the latest and most up-to-date research on the nonlinear optics of plasmonic systems. The target audience for Boyd’s book is clearly graduate students of engineering and science, and optical engineers and designers. But anyone concerned with the field of optical physics from the perspective of nonlinear optics will profit from reading this book." --The Optical Society: Optics and Photonics News

Nonlinear Optics, Fourth Edition, is a tutorial-based introduction to nonlinear optics that is suitable for graduate-level courses in electrical and electronic engineering, and for electronic and computer engineering departments, physics departments, and as a reference for industry practitioners of nonlinear optics. It will appeal to a wide audience of optics, physics and electrical and electronic engineering students, as well as practitioners in related fields, such as materials science and chemistry.

1. The Nonlinear Optical Susceptibility2. Wave-Equation Description of Nonlinear Optical Interactions3. Quantum-Mechanical Theory of the Nonlinear Optical Susceptibility4. The Intensity-Dependent Refractive Index5. Molecular Origin of the Nonlinear Optical Response6. Nonlinear Optics in the Two-Level Approximation7. Processes Resulting from the Intensity-Dependent Refractive Index8. Spontaneous Light Scattering and Acoustooptics9. Stimulated Brillouin and Stimulated Rayleigh Scattering10. Stimulated Raman Scattering and Stimulated Rayleigh-Wing Scattering11. The Electrooptic and Photorefractive Effects12. Optically Induced Damage and Multiphoton Absorption13. Ultrafast and Intense-Field Nonlinear Optics14. Nonlinear Optics of Plasmonic Systems

Subject Areas: Applied optics [TTB]