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Record Nr.

UNISA996466684503316

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

3-540-39891-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 1983.]

Descrizione fisica

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

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 182

Disciplina

621.36

Soggetti

Lasers

Photonics

Quantum optics

Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices

Quantum Optics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

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.