PGSNO

Course: Nonlinear Optics

Department/Abbreviation: OPT/PGSNO

Year: 2020

Guarantee: 'prof. Mgr. Radim Filip, Ph.D.', 'doc. RNDr. Ondřej Haderka, Ph.D.', 'prof. RNDr. Jan Peřina, Ph.D.', 'prof. RNDr. Jan Peřina, DrSc.'

Annotation: Maxwell's equations in nonlinear dielectric medium

Course review:
-Maxwell's equations in nonlinear dielectric medium -Polarization vector in nonlinear medium -Nonlinear dielectric susceptibilities and their properties -Materials for nonlinear optics -classification of nonlinear optical phenomena -Second-order nonlinear phenomena - three-wave interaction, second-harmonic and second-subharmonic generation -Frequency descending and ascending conversion -Parametric generation and amplification -Superfluorescence -Conservation laws, phase-matching -Generation of non-classical light -Nonlinear phenomena of higher order - Raman and hyper-Raman scattering -Brillouin scattering -Four-wave interaction -Phase conjugation -Kerr effect, photorefraction -Self-focusing of laser beams -Self-guided nonlinear beam -Nonlinear optics of pulses -Optical solitons, soliton laser -Multiphoton absorption and emission -Optical bistability -Transient coherent phenomena - self-induced transparence, photon echo, superradiance, nonlinear dynamics and chaos