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书 名: 极端非线性光学

作　者：韦格纳

出版社： 科学出版社

出版时间： 2011年6月1日

开本： 16开

定价: 69.00元

内容简介

Followingthebirthofthelaserin1960,thefieldof"nonlinearoptics"rapidlyemerged.Today,laserintensitiesandpulsedurationsarereadilyavailable,forwhichtheconceptsandapproximationsoftraditionalnonlinearopticsnolongerapply.Inthisregimeof"extremenonlinearoptics,"alargevarietyofnovelandunusualeffectsarise,forexamplefrequencydoublingininversionsymmetricmaterialsorhigh-harmonicgenerationingases,whichcanleadtoattosecondelectromagneticpulsesorpulsetrains.Otherexamplesof"extremenonlinearoptics"coverdiverseareassuchassolid-statephysics,atomicphysics,relativisticfreeelectronsinavacuumandeventhevacuumitself.Thisbookstartswithanintroductiontothefieldbasedprimarilyonextensionsoftwofamoustextbookexamples,namelytheLorentzoscillatormodelandtheDrudemodel.Herethelevelofsophisticationshouldbeaccessibletoanyundergraduatephysicsstudent.Manygraphicalillustrationsandexamplesaregiven.Thefollowingchaptersgraduallyguidethestudenttowardsthecurrent"stateoftheart"andprovideacomprehensiveoverviewofthefield.Everychapterisaccompaniedbyexercisestodeepenthereader'sunderstandingofimportanttopics,withdetailedsolutionsattheendofthebook.

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作者：（美国）韦格纳（Wegener.M.）

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1 Introduction

1.1 "Traditional" Nonlinear Optics - Extreme Nonlinear Optics

1.2 How to Read this Book?

2 Selected Aspects of Few-Cycle Laser Pulses and Nonlinear Optics .

2.1 Maxwell Equations

2.2 The Light Intensity

2.3 Electric Field in a Laser Resonator

2.4 A Brief Look at Phenomenological Nonlinear Optics

2.5 Even-Harmonic Generation and Inversion Symmetry

2.6 Principle of Measuring the Carrier-Envelope Frequency

3 The Lorentz Oscillator Model and Beyond

3.1 Linear Optics: Revisiting the Lorentz Oscillator Model

3.2 Two-Level Systems and Rabi Energy

3.3 Carrier-Wave Rabi Flopping

3.4 Frequency Doubling with Inversion Symmetry

3.5 Quantum Interference of Multiphoton Absorption

3.6 High Harmonics from Two-Level Systems

3.6.1 The "Static-Field Approximation".

3.6.2 The "Square-Wave Approximation".

3.6.3 The Dressed Two-Level System: Fioquet States

4 The Drude Free-Electron Model and Beyond

4.1 Linear Optics: The Drude Model

4.2 Electron Wave Packets Driven by Light

4.2.1 Semiclassical Considerations

4.2.2 Quantum-Mechanical Treatment: Dressed Electrons

4.3 Crystal Electrons

4.3.1 Static-Field Case

4.3.2 High Harmonics from Carrier-Wave Bloch Oscillations

4.4 Extreme Nonlinear Optics of Relativistic Electrons

4.4.1 Second-Harmonic Generation and Photon Drag

4.4.2 Nonperturbative Regime

4.5 Extreme Nonlinear Optics of Dirac Electrons

4.6 Unruh Radiation

5 Lorentz Becomes Drude: Bound-Unbound Transitions

5.1 High-Harmonic Generation: Phenomenological Approach

5.2 The Keldysh Parameter

5.3 Field Ionization of Atoms

5.4 High-Harmonic Generation

5.4.1 Three-Step Scenario and Cutoff

5.5 Application to Photoemission from Metal Surfaces

6 Accounting for Propagation Effects

6.1 Numerical Solution of the Nonlinear Maxwell Equations

6.2 Slowly Varying Envelope Approximation

6.3 Gouy Phase and Carrier-Envelope Phase

6.4 Reshaping of the Amplitude Spectrum

7 Extreme Nonlinear Optics of Semiconductors and Isolators

7.1 Carrier-Wave Rabi Flopping

7.1.1 Experiment

7.1.2 Theory

7.1.3 Dependence on the Carrier-Envelope Phase

7.1.4 Semiconductor Bloch Equations

7.2 "THG in the Disguise of SHG".

7.3 Dynamic Franz-Keldysh Effect

7.4 Photon Drag or Dynamic Hall Effect

7.5 Conical Second-Harmonic Generation

8 Extreme Nonlinear Optics of Atoms and Electrons

8.1 High-Harmonic Generation From Atoms

8.1.1 Gas Jets

8.1.2 Hollow Waveguides

8.1.3 Quasi Phase-Matching in Modulated Capillaries

8.1.4 Dependence on the Carrier-Envelope Phase

8.2 Relativistic Nonlinear Thomson Scattering

Solutions

Symbols

References

Index