Luigi Lugiato is Professor Emeritus at Università dell'Insubria, Como, Italy. He has received numerous honors as a result of his many pioneering contributions in nonlinear optics and quantum optics. These include the Albert A. Michelson Medal of the Franklin Institute, the Quantum Electronics Prize of the European Physical Society, the Max Born Award of the Optical Society of America and the Fermi Prize and Medal of the Italian Physical Society. He is member of Academia Europaea and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, the American Physical Society and the European Physical Society.
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Preface Part I. Models, Propagation, Steady-State Phenomena: 1. Rate equation model for the laser 2. Interaction of a system of two-level atoms with the electromagnetic field 3. The Maxwell-Bloch equations 4. Inclusion of the irreversible processes in the atomic equations 5. Linear and nonlinear propagation in irreversible Maxwell-Bloch equations 6. Optical nonlinearities: materials with quadratic nonlinearities 7. Optical nonlinearities: materials with cubic nonlinearities 8. Optical resonators: the planar ring cavity, empty cavity, linear cavity 9. Nonlinear active ring cavity: the ring laser, stationary states 10. The adiabatic elimination principle 11. Nonlinear passive ring cavity: optical bistability 12. Modal equations for the ring cavity: the single-mode model 13. Single- and two-mode models 14. Nonlinear dynamics in Fabry-Perot cavities 15. Inhomogeneous broadening 16. The semiconductor laser 17. Laser without inversion and the effects of atomic coherence Part II. Dynamical Phenomena, Instabilities, Chaos: 18. Some general aspects in nonlinear dissipative dynamical systems 19. Special limits in the single-mode model 20. The linear stability analysis of Maxwell-Bloch equations 21. Adiabatic elimination in the complete Maxwell-Bloch equations 22. Dynamical aspects in the laser 23. Single- and multi-mode operation in inhomogeneously broadened lasers 24. Dynamical aspects in optical bistability 25. Self-pulsing in other optical systems Part III. Transverse Optical Patterns: 26. Gaussian beams and modes of cavities with spherical mirrors 27. General features about optical pattern formation in planar cavities 28. The LL model 29. Spatial patterns in cavities with spherical mirrors 30. Cavity solitons Appendixes References Index.
Preface Part I. Models, Propagation, Steady-State Phenomena: 1. Rate equation model for the laser 2. Interaction of a system of two-level atoms with the electromagnetic field 3. The Maxwell-Bloch equations 4. Inclusion of the irreversible processes in the atomic equations 5. Linear and nonlinear propagation in irreversible Maxwell-Bloch equations 6. Optical nonlinearities: materials with quadratic nonlinearities 7. Optical nonlinearities: materials with cubic nonlinearities 8. Optical resonators: the planar ring cavity, empty cavity, linear cavity 9. Nonlinear active ring cavity: the ring laser, stationary states 10. The adiabatic elimination principle 11. Nonlinear passive ring cavity: optical bistability 12. Modal equations for the ring cavity: the single-mode model 13. Single- and two-mode models 14. Nonlinear dynamics in Fabry-Perot cavities 15. Inhomogeneous broadening 16. The semiconductor laser 17. Laser without inversion and the effects of atomic coherence Part II. Dynamical Phenomena, Instabilities, Chaos: 18. Some general aspects in nonlinear dissipative dynamical systems 19. Special limits in the single-mode model 20. The linear stability analysis of Maxwell-Bloch equations 21. Adiabatic elimination in the complete Maxwell-Bloch equations 22. Dynamical aspects in the laser 23. Single- and multi-mode operation in inhomogeneously broadened lasers 24. Dynamical aspects in optical bistability 25. Self-pulsing in other optical systems Part III. Transverse Optical Patterns: 26. Gaussian beams and modes of cavities with spherical mirrors 27. General features about optical pattern formation in planar cavities 28. The LL model 29. Spatial patterns in cavities with spherical mirrors 30. Cavity solitons Appendixes References Index.
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