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By V S Letokhov, Pierre Meystre
July 06, 2000
The birth of quantum electronics in the middle of the 20th century and the subsquent discovery of the laser led to new trends in physics and a number of photonic technolgies. This volume is dedicated to Peter Franken, a pioneer of nonlinear optics, and includes papers by the founders of quantum ...
By Alice M. Tang
March 01, 1996
This monograph outlines the basic theory of optical parametric processes and presents discussions on materials and practical device considerations. It emphasizes on optical parametric oscillators and mainly focuses on the three-photon parametric process....
By S. Letokhov
March 01, 1995
This book deals specifically with the manipulation of atoms by laser light, describing the focusing, channeling and reflection of atoms by laser fields. It also describes the potential fields required to cause the phase change of the wave function necessary for the atomic interactions to occur....
By Jing-Yuan Zhang, Jung Y. Huang, Y.R. Shen
March 01, 1995
This volume considers optical parametric generation and amplification (OPG/OPA), as a means for producing a tunable optical parametric device. It reviews the OPA/OPG systems using various crystals pumped by lasers at various frequencies with pulse duration ranging from picoseconds to femtoseconds. ...
By Hector A. Baldis, Kunioki Mima, Akio Nishiguchi
June 01, 1994
This book covers recent developments in laser plasma physics such as absorption, instability, energy transport and radiation from the standpoint of theory and simulation for plasma corona, showing how the elements for the high density compression depend on the interaction physics and heat transport....