000			03201cam a2200265 i 4500
008			130828s2014 flua b 001 0 eng
020			_a9781439866382 (hardback)
041			_aeng
082	0	0	_a621.366 _223
100	1		_aGuha, Shekhar.
245	1	0	_aLaser beam propagation in nonlinear optical media / _cShekhar Guha, Leonel P. Gonzalez.
260			_aBoca Raton, FL : _bCRC Press, _cc2014
300			_axxix, 304 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"This book collects the formalisms and equations for calculating laser beam propagation through linear and nonlinear optical media. It provides formulas for simple beam propagation, examines the distribution of electric field amplitudes at various locations in an optical train, includes expressions for nonlinear frequency conversion with arbitrary focusing of beams, and covers linear and nonlinear absorption and thermal refraction. The book compares various calculation methods and offers MATLAB® programs to numerically evaluate the problems"--
520			_a"Preface This book arose out of a need felt by the authors, whose daily work is in experimental nonlinear optics, that existing books in their field, excellent as they are, and indeed from which they learned the subject, don't always have the right formulas or derivations needed for understanding or predicting experimental results. Some examples of topics in which the authors particularly felt this need are: walk-off angle expressions for light propagating in anisotropic crystals, detailed derivations of the effective d coefficients in uniaxial, biaxial and isotropic crystals, expressions for power and energy conversion efficiencies in various three-wave mixing processes in both homogenous or layered (quasi phase matched) materials, and the effects of beam focusing on power conversion efficiencies beyond the pioneering work by Boyd and Kleinman, for non-resonant and resonant processes. This book is an attempt to be somewhat half-way between the monographs and textbooks by Bloembergen, Zernike and Midwinter, Yariv, Shen, Boyd, Powers etc. and the handbooks by Dmitriev, Gurzadyan and Nikogosyan, or by Sutherland. The derivations included here are often just the details left out as problems in textbooks. In the attempt to provide detailed derivations, the number of equations in this book has proliferated. Still the authors have kept the equations and derivations in the present format hoping that they may be as useful to some readers as they have been to them. The detailed derivations may also help the readers in catching any mistakes that may have crept into the formulas. The authors would appreciate it very much if the readers would let the publishers know of any mistakes they find in the book"--
650		0	_aLight _xTransmission _xMathematical models.
650		0	_aLaser beams _xMathematical models.
650		0	_aNonlinear optics _xMathematics.
650		0	_aCrystal optics _xMathematics.
650		7	_aSCIENCE / Physics. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aTECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Lasers & Photonics. _2bisacsh
700	1		_aGonzalez, Leonel Pastor, _d1971-
942			_2ddc _cLIBRO
999			_c1276