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Book SynopsisPraise for the 1st Edition:
well written and up to date. The problem sets at the end of each chapter reinforce and enhance the material presented, and may give students confidence in handling real-world problems. ?Optics & Photonics News
rigorous but simple description of a difficult field keeps the reader's attention throughout. serves perfectly for an introductory-level course. ?Physics Today
This fully revised introduction enables the reader to understand and use the basic principles related to many phenomena in nonlinear optics and provides the mathematical tools necessary to solve application-relevant problems. The book is a pedagogical guide aimed at a diverse audience including engineers, physicists, and chemists who want a tiered approach to understanding nonlinear optics. The material is augmented by numerous problems, with many requiring the reader to perform real-world calculations for a range of fields, from optical communications to remot
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"an excellent book, very well organized and written. It includes a good number of problems at the end of each chapter…. I recommend this book to anyone teaching Nonlinear Optics."
—Dr. Baldemar Ibarra-Escamilla, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, México
"Professor Joe Haus has done a magnificent academic job of completing the second edition of this already excellent introduction…. Even in the absence of Prof Peter Powers, the main basic concepts were kept and touched up, and the revised chapters and new chapter, which brings to the nonlinear optics community and newcomers the expanding area of quantum nonlinear optics, updates the book. Great work!"
—Anderson S. L. Gomes, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil.
"This is definitely an excellent book that I will push all my students to read."
—Prof. Lei Zhou, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
"a pragmatic approach to learning the essential concepts needed for all practitioners in the field… with many realistic problems using material data and numerical algorithms to explore nonlinear phenomena. This book is destined to be very popular among students as well as with researchers in this field."
—Paras N. Prasad, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Physics, Electrical Engineering and Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo
"This book contains fruitful discussions covering both theoretical and practical topics. It will be a very valuable reference for scientists and engineers in the optics and photonics community."
—Qihuang Gong, Cheungkong Professor of Physics and Boya Chair Professor, Peking University
"notable for its clarity, dedication to the SI system, and the fact of covering several sub-areas without falling into the trap of becoming too specialized in any one of them. It’s one of the books that I always suggest to my students. The new quantum NLO section at the end should be a valuable addition."
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Table of ContentsIntroduction. Linear Optics. Introduction to the Nonlinear Susceptibility. Three-Wave Processes in the Small-Signal Regime. Quasi-Phase Matching. Three-Wave Mixing Beyond the Small-Signal Limit. χ(2) Devices . χ(3) Processes. Raman and Brillouin Scattering. Nonlinear Optics Including Diffraction and Dispersion. Quantum Nonlinear Optics. Complex Notation. Sellmeier Equations. Programming Techniques. Exact Solutions to the Coupled Amplitude Equations. Optical Fibers: Slowly Varying Envelope Equations.
