Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (V, 267 p. 30 illus)
Ausgabe:
Springer eBook Collection. Physics and Astronomy
ISBN:
9783540398912
,
9783540123057
Serie:
Lecture Notes in Physics 182
Inhalt:
Optical bistability in semiconductors -- Optical bistability with two-level atoms -- Optical bistability and non absorption resonance in atomic sodium -- Polarization switching and optical bistability with resonantly driven J=1/2 to J=1/2 atoms in a ring cavity -- Chaos in nonlinear optical systems -- Spontaneous pulsations in lasers -- Experimental evidence for self-pulsing and chaos in CW-excited lasers -- Second harmonic generation in a resonant cavity -- On the generation of tunable ultrashort light pulses -- Raman spectroscopy with ultrashort coherent excitation. Narrowing of spectral lines beyond the dephasing linewidth -- An autocorrelator for the measurement of CW ultrashort optical pulses having frequency variations -- Multiphoton ionization of atoms -- Pump dynamical effects in superfluorescent quantum initiation and pulse evolution -- Coherent population trapping and the effect of laser phase fluctuations -- An introduction to the physics of laser fusion -- Distribution functions in quantum optics -- Quantum non demolition measurements
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783540123057
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1007/3-540-12305-9
