Springer Wave Phenomena

The Exotic World of Nonlinear Optics.- I Basic Macroscopic Concepts.- Second Order Nonlinear Optical Effects.- II Cavity Phenomena.- Cavity QED.- Superradiance in the Dicke Model.- III Metals, Superconductors, and Ponderomotive Effects.- Surface Enhanced Second Harmonic Generation from Metals.- Optical Second-Harmonic Generation from Jellium. The Nonlinear Energy Reflection Coefficient as a Function of the Angle of Incidence.- On the Nonlocal Response Theory of Optical Rectification and Second-Harmonic Generation in Centrosymmetric Superconductors.- Coherence Factors in the Optical Second-Harmonic Response Tensor of a Cooper-Paired Superconductor.- Physical Picture of Parametric Phenomena and Ponderomotive Effects in Solids.- IV Guiding Structures: Surfaces and Fibres.- Light Scattering from Solid Surfaces.- Second Harmonic Generation in Optical Fibres.- Two-Wavelength Nonlinear Prism Coupling to Planar Waveguides in Semiconductor Doped Glasses.- V Semiconductors.- The Nonlinear Optics of Semiconductor Quantum Wells: Physics and Devices.- Transient Nonlinear Optics in Semiconductors.- Phase Conjugation.- Theory of Four-Wave Mixing in Photorefractive Oscillators.- Optical Bistability.- Nonlinear Optical Properties of ZnO at Room Temperature Investigated by Laser-Induced Self-Diffraction.- VI Organic Materials.- Nonlinear Optical Effects in Organic Materials.- Nonlinear Optical Effects in Substituted Anilines.- VII Disordered Media.- Weak Localization in Nonlinear Optics of Disordered Media.- VIII Photon Echoes, Raman Line Shapes.- Optical Data Storage and Image Processing in Rare Earth Ion Doped Crystals Using Stimulated Photon Echo.- A Practical Analysis for Coherent Raman Scattering Spectra by the Fourier Series Method.- Index of Contributors.