A comprehensive two-volume treatment
of the phenomenology of the interaction of light with matter, this text develops a broad range of topics based on a limited number of basic principles and covers special areas of linear optics which relate to material science and laser optics. It also discusses the phenomena of nonlinear optics in terms of simple electrons on spring models, and includes discussions of electrodynamics in dilute media, nonlinear optical coefficients, optical activity, magneto-optics, crystal optics,
propagation, phase matching, efficiency, harmonic generation, parametric processes, optical applications of nonlinear optics, optical bistability Raman lasers, and stimulated Brillouin scattering. |
