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OverviewBased on the author's extensive teaching experience and lecture notes, this textbook provides a substantially analytical rather than descriptive presentation of nonlinear optics. Divided into five parts, with most chapters corresponding to a two-hour lecture, the book begins with a unique account of the historical development from Kirchhoff's law for the black-body radiation to Planck's quantum hypothesis and Einstein's discovery of spontaneous emission - providing all the explicit proofs. The subsequent sections deal with matter quantization, ultrashort pulse propagation in 2-level media, cavity nonlinear optics, chi(2) and chi(3) media. For graduate and PhD students in nonlinear optics or photonics, while also representing a valuable reference for researchers in these fields. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Paul Mandel (Université Libre de Bruxelles,)Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH Imprint: Blackwell Verlag GmbH Dimensions: Width: 17.30cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.508kg ISBN: 9783527409235ISBN 10: 3527409238 Pages: 259 Publication Date: 24 March 2010 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationPaul Mandel is the founder and was Head of the Theoretical Nonlinear Optics group at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) until his retirement in 2008. He obtained his academic degrees at the ULB under Professor I. Prigogine. His career was spent with the National Science Foundation of Belgium with full-time research positions. He has been working in quantum and semi-classical optics since 1971, managing national and European research contracts, and has chaired research conferences in the EU and the USA. Lately, he has been a part-time Professor of Optics at the ULB. He has published over 250 research papers in refereed journals and a book with Cambridge University Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |