QUANTUM NONLINEAR OPTICS
CONTENTS QUANTIZATION OF THE RADIATION FIELD MAXWELL’S EQUATIONS AND HAMILTONIAN FORMALISM QUANTIZATION OF THE RADIATION FIELD AND HEISENBERG’S UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE COHERENT STATE OF LIGHT SQUEEZED STATE OF LIGHT QUADRATURE-PHASE SQUEEZED STATE ANTIBUNCHING LIGHT AND PHOTON-NUMBER SQUEEZED STATE INTERACTION BETWEEN THE ELECTRON AND THE RADIATION FIELD ELECTRON–RADIATION COUPLED SYSTEM SPONTANEOUS AND STIMULATED EMISSIONS NATURAL WIDTH OF A SPECTRAL LINE SUPPRESSION AND ENHANCEMENT OF THE SPONTANEOUS EMISSION SUPPRESSION OF THE SPONTANEOUS EMISSION FROM CS ATOMS SUPPRESSION AND ENHANCEMENT OF SPONTANEOUS EMISSION LASER COOLING OF AN ATOMIC SYSTEM DOPPLER COOLING POLARIZATION-GRADIENT COOLING BOSE–EINSTEIN CONDENSATION IN A GAS OF NEUTRAL ATOMS CONDENSATES OF A FERMIONIC GAS STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF LIGHT THE DEGREE OF COHERENCE AND CORRELATION FUNCTIONS OF LIGHT COHERENT STATE THERMAL RADIATION PHOTON-NUMBER STATE AND ANTIBUNCHING CHARACTERISTICS PHOTON-COUNT DISTRIBUTION LASER OSCILLATION LASER LIGHT AND ITS STATISTICAL PROPERTIES PHOTON STATISTICS BELOW THE THRESHOLD (A/C < 1) PHOTON STATISTICS ABOVE THE THRESHOLD (A/C > 1) PHASE FLUCTUATIONS OF LASERS SEVERAL EXAMPLES OF LASERS RUBY LASER ALEXANDRITE AND TI-SAPPHIRE LASERS OTHER IMPORTANT LASERS THE ROAD TO X-RAY LASERS DYNAMICS OF LIGHT SHORT LIGHT PULSES AND OPTICAL SOLITONS Q-SWITCHING MODE LOCKING PULSE COMPRESSION OPTICAL SOLITONS CHIRPED PULSE AMPLI?CATION SUPERRADIANCE EXPERIMENTS OF SUPERRADIANCE THEORY OF SUPERRADIANCE QUANTUM AND PROPAGATION E?ECTS ON SUPERRADIANCE SUPERRADIANCE FROM EXCITONS NONLINEAR OPTICAL RESPONSES I GENERATION OF SUM-FREQUENCY AND SECOND HARMONICS PRINCIPLE OF HIGHER-HARMONIC GENERATION SECOND-ORDER POLARIZABILITY ?(2) CONDITIONS TO GENERATE SECOND HARMONICS OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLI?CATION AND OSCILLATION THIRD-ORDER OPTICAL RESPONSE FOUR-WAVE MIXING – CARS PHASE-CONJUGATED WAVES OPTICAL BISTABILITY EXCITONIC OPTICAL NONLINEARITY TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTION SPECTRUM TWO-PHOTON RESONANT SECOND-HARMONIC GENERATION SHG SPECTRA IN HEXAGONAL MANGANITES RMNO3 FERROELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC DOMAINS SHG FROM THE CORUNDUM STRUCTURE CR2O3 NONLINEAR OPTICAL RESPONSES II ENHANCED HIGHER-HARMONIC GENERATION ATTOSECOND PULSE GENERATION ATTOSECOND PULSE BUNCHING DIRECT OBSERVATION OF ATTOSECOND LIGHT BUNCHING ATTOSECOND CONTROL OF ELECTRONIC PROCESSES BY INTENSE LIGHT FIELDS COHERENT LIGHT COMB AND INTENSE FEW-CYCLE LASER FIELDS QUASISTATIONARY REGIME TRANSIENT REGIME IMPULSIVE REGIME MULTISTEP COHERENT ANTI-STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING IN CRYSTALS REFERENCES