Subsections
[Cr:4, Lc:4, Tt:0, Lb:0]
- Introduction to anisotropic media, double refraction, wave propagation in anisotropic medium,
applications of index ellipsoid, energy and momentum of light field in anisotropic media, wave plates,
physics of polarization controlling devices, electro-optic modulators.
- Concepts of nonlinear phenomena, nonlinear electric polarizability, second order nonlinear processes;
second harmonic generation, conceptual description of phase matching, parametric up and down
conversion, parametric oscillators and amplifiers, entangled photon generation.
- Third order nonlinear processes; third harmonic generation, optical Kerr effect, self focusing, self phase
modulation, super-continuum generation, cross phase modulation, four wave mixing, optical phase
conjugation and its applications.
- Nonlinear optical effects in optical waveguides and optical fibers, applications of nonlinear optics in
quantum optics experiments, nonlinear effects in Bose-Einstein condensation, higher order nonlinear
effects.
- The Principles of Nonlinear Optics, Y. R. Shen, John Wiley and Sons Inc (2003).
- Nonlinear Optics, Robert Boyd, Elsevier Inc (2008).
- Nonlinear Fiber Optics, G. P. Agrawal, Elsevier Inc (2013).
