Laser Physics [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the Third New Zealand Symposium on Laser Physics, held at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, January 17–23, 1983 / edited by J. D. Harvey, D. F. Walls.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harvey, J. D., Editor.

Walls, D. F., Editor.

Series:

Lecture Notes in Physics, 0075-8450 ; 182

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lasers.

Photonics.

Quantum optics.

Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.

Quantum Optics.

Local Subjects:

Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.

Quantum Optics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (V, 267 p. 30 illus.)

Edition:

1st ed. 1983.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1983.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

3-540-39891-0