Optical Processes in Solids

This book, first published in 2003, is a graduate textbook in condensed matter physics and optics.

Yutaka Toyozawa (Author)

9780521556057, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 9 January 2003

442 pages, 3 tables
24.4 x 17 x 2.3 cm, 0.7 kg

A unifying element that links the apparently diverse phenomena observed in optical processes is the dielectric dispersion of matter. It describes the response of matter to incoming electromagnetic waves and charged particles, and thus predicts their behavior in the self-induced field of matter, known as polariton and polaron effects. The energies of phonon, exciton and plasmon, quanta of collective motions of charged particles constituting the matter, are also governed by dielectric dispersion. Since the latter is a functional of the former, one can derive useful relations for their self-consistency. Nonlinear response to laser light inclusive of multiphoton processes, and excitation of atomic inner shells by synchrotron radiation, are also described. Within the configuration coordinate model, photo-induced lattice relaxation and chemical reaction are described equally to both ground and relaxed excited states, to provide a novel and global perspective on structural phase transitions and the nature of interatomic bonds. This book was first published in 2003.

Introduction
1. Radiation field
2. Quantum mechanics and the harmonic oscillator
3. The interaction of radiation with matter
4. Electronic versus nuclear motions and the optical spectra of localized electrons in solids
5. Lattice vibrations
6. Electric susceptibility and the dielectric constant
7. One electron states in solids
8. Excitons
9. Polarons and the self-trapped state
10. Optical spectra of excitons in the phonon field
11. Higher order optical processes
12. Inner shell excitation
13. Photo-induced structural changes
14. Light, matter, and life.

Subject Areas: Applied optics [TTB], Condensed matter physics [liquid state & solid state physics PHFC]