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Book SynopsisSuitable for both graduate and senior undergraduate students, this textbook offers a logical progression through the underlying principles and practical applications of nonlinear photonics. Building up from essential physics, general concepts, and fundamental mathematical formulations, it provides a robust introduction to nonlinear optical processes and phenomena, and their practical applications in real-world devices and systems. Over 45 worked problems illustrate key concepts and provide hands-on models for students, and over 160 end-of-chapter exercises supply students with plenty of scope to master the material. Accompanied by a complete solutions manual for instructors, including detailed explanations of each result, and drawing on the author''s 35 years of teaching experience, this is the ideal introduction to nonlinear photonics for students in electrical engineering.
Trade Review'I highly recommend this comprehensive, self-contained, graduate- and senior-undergraduate-level textbook with its unique features and a pedagogical engineering approach' Barry R. Masters, AAAS, Optica, and SPIE
Table of ContentsContents; 1. Light-matter interaction; 2. Optical nonlinearity; 3. Optical susceptibilities; 4. Propagation of optical waves; 5. Nonlinear optical interactions; 6. Coupled-wave analysis; 7. Nonlinearly coupled waveguide modes; 8. Nonlinear propagation equations; 9. Phase matching; 10. Optical frequency conversion; 11. Electro-optic modulation; 12. All-optical modulation; 13. Stimulated raman and brillouin scattering; 14. Multiphoton absorption; 15. Optical saturation; 16. Optical bistability; 17. Generation of laser pulses; 18. Propagation of optical pulses; 19. Supercontinuum generation; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D.
