Paul Mandel Livres

(Publication no. EUR 10610 of the Commission of the European Communities, Directorate-General Telecommunications, ... Information Industries and Innovation)

Focusing on cavity nonlinear optics, this book explores its scientific and technological significance through the lens of modern dynamical systems theory. It emphasizes deriving analytical results while connecting theoretical findings to experimental outcomes. Aimed at graduate students and researchers, it offers a comprehensive understanding of the field, bridging theory and practice in theoretical physics, nonlinear optics, and laser physics.

Based on the author's extensive teaching experience and lecture notes, this textbook provides a substantially analytical rather than descriptive presentation of nonlinear optics. Divided into five parts, with most chapters corresponding to a two-hour lecture, the book begins with a unique account of the historical development from Kirchhoff's law for the black-body radiation to Planck's quantum hypothesis and Einstein's discovery of spontaneous emission - providing all the explicit proofs. The subsequent sections deal with matter quantization, ultrashort pulse propagation in 2-level media, cavity nonlinear optics, chi(2) and chi(3) media. For graduate and PhD students in nonlinear optics or photonics, while also representing a valuable reference for researchers in these fields.