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Stimulated Light Scattering (stimulated Raman, Brillouin, and Rayleigh scattering)
Recent advances in ultrafast NLO (high-harmonic generation, atto-physics, terahertz)
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What is Nonlinear Optics?
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Two light beams cross without any interaction (linear optics)
Light beams interact with each other, or themselves (nonlinear optics)
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Primary Manifestations: β’ sum, difference, harmonic frequency generation (new frequencies) β’ modulating refractive index and absorption coefficient (e.g. )
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Optical Computers !
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1961: NLO was born!
Peter Franken (1929-1999)
University of Michigan
Have you seen SHG?: Green Laser Pointer
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1961: NLO was born!
Linear (one-photon) fluorescence
Two-photon fluorescence (TPF)
Three-photon fluorescence (3PF)
Two-photon microscopy
Two-photon polymerization
Theoretical Foundations
Maria Goeppert-Mayer (June 28, 1906 β February 20, 1972)
Two-photon absorption theory (1931, doctoral dissertation)
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963, shared with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Paul Wigner.
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Nicholas Bloembergen 1962,..
Theoretical Foundations
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1981
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Femtosecond Lasers, Frequency Combs and Optical Clocks
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Extreme Nonlinear Optics (X-ray bursts, attosecond pulses, and laser fusion)
Other historical perspectives Faraday Effect (magneto-optic) - 1845: