Laser Physics
Proceedings of the Third New Zealand Symposium on Laser Physics, held at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, January 17-23, 1983
Published on 1. May 1983
Book
Paperback/Softback
V, 267 pages
978-3-540-12305-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
More details
Series
Edition
1983 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
30 s/w Abbildungen
V, 267 p. 30 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
482 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-12305-7 (9783540123057)
DOI
10.1007/3-540-12305-9
Schweitzer Classification
Content
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.