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Progress in Optics

  • 1st Edition, Volume 45 - July 1, 2003
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Emil Wolf
  • Language: English

A volume in the Progress in Optics series, the papers in this book cover a range of topics, including: anamorphic beam shaping for laser and diffuse light; ultra-fast al… Read more

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A volume in the Progress in Optics series, the papers in this book cover a range of topics, including: anamorphic beam shaping for laser and diffuse light; ultra-fast all-optical switching in optical networks; generation of dark hollow beams and their application; and two-photon lasers.

Table of contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Anamorphic beam shaping for laser and diffuse light

§ 1. Introduction

§ 2. Reflective techniques

§ 3. Refractive/diffractive techniques

§ 4. Adiabatic techniques

§ 5. Applications

§ 6. Summary

Chapter 2: Ultra-fast all-optical switching in optical networks

§ 1 Introduction

§ 2 Use of nonlinearities in an optical fiber for all-optical switching

§ 3 Interferometric SOA-based all-optical switches

§ 4 All-optical switches based on passive waveguides

§ 5 Demonstrations of all-optical switching in networks

§ 6 Conclusion

Chapter 3: Generation of dark hollow beams and their applications

§ 1 Introduction

§ 2 Definition of a dark hollow beam and its parameters

§ 3 Generation of dark hollow beams

§ 4 Classification of dark hollow beams

§ 5 Applications of DHBs in modern optics

§ 6 Applications of DHBs in atom optics

§ 7 Applications of DHBs in coherent matter-wave optics

§ 8 Summary and outlook

Acknowledgments

Chapter 4: Two-photon lasers

§ 1. Introduction

§ 2. Two-photon processes

§ 3. Simple models of amplification and lasing

§ 4. Two-photon amplification and lasing

§ 5. The two-photon maser

§ 6. The dressed-state two-photon laser

§ 8. Quantum-statistical and nonlinear dynamical properties

§ 9. Future prospects

Acknowledgments

Chapter 5: Nonradiating sources and other “invisible” objects

§ 1. Introduction

§ 2. Nonradiating sources

§ 3. The inverse source problem

§ 4. Nonscattering scatterers

§ 5. One-dimensional localized excitations

§ 6. Moving charge distributions and radiation reaction

§ 7. Conclusions

Acknowledgements

Chapter 6: Lasing in disordered media

§ 1 Introduction

§ 2 Random laser with incoherent feedback

§ 3 Random laser with coherent feedback – Experiment

§ 4 Random laser with coherent feedback – Theory

§ 5 Interplay of localization and amplification

§ 6 Applications of random lasers

Acknowledgment

Author index for Volume 45

Subject index for Volume 45

Contents of previouse volumes*

Cumulative index – Volumes 1–45*

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 45
  • Published: July 1, 2003
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Emil Wolf

Professor Wolf works at the University of Rochester, NY, USA
Affiliations and expertise
University of Rochester, NY, USA

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