The Elements of Nonlinear Optics (Cambridge Studies in Modern Optics, Series Number 9)

By David Cotter and Paul N. Butcher

Book Overview

There has recently been a rapid growth of activity in nonlinear optics. Effects such as frequency doubling, stimulated Raman scattering, phase conjugation and solitons are of great interest both for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521341833
• ISBN13: 9780521341837
• Release Date: July 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Great fundamental physics theory, no experimental data

Theoretical physicists will still find this excellent text useful for the most fundamental considerations, but there is a complete lack of any experimental data. Experimentalists and engineers will get far more from R W Boyd's great text 'Nonlinear Optics', as Boyd's book has far more of a physical feel about it, and is much more up to date, with useful practical data. There is a need for another book to be written on experimental and device engineering aspects of this subject......................

The most useful text on this topic I am yet to find.

Briefly, this book provides all the necessary background for the subject area, as well as moving towards some of the more cutting edge technological aspects. This book could easily form the backbone of a set of lecture courses on the subject.