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This monograph is devoted to a detailed treatment of the nonlinear optical properties of liquid crystals originated by optical reorientation.

Contents:

  • Physical Properties of Thermotropics
  • Basic Nonlinear Optics
  • Light-Induced Director Reorientation
  • Thermal Effects
  • Optical Properties of Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals
  • Nonlinear Optical Effects in Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals

https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/2343

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This is an introductory text on basic properties of matter, the contents are designed for undergraduate students in solid state physics and electrical engineering

Contents:

  • Wave Optics
  • Basic Quantum Mechanics
  • From the Hydrogen Atom to Condensed Matter
  • Electrical Properties of Crystals
  • Optical Properties
  • Laser Electronics

https://doi.org/10.1142/10869

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Edited Books

2023

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1997

This research monograph explores novel optical materials and their unique physical, optical, and electronic properties, and the role they play in the newest developments in optical communication, signal, and image processing application and the Information Superhighway. Leading authorities present a detailed treatment of optical materials. The book covers semiconductor quantized structures, polymers, liquid crystals, composite materials, nonlinear crystals, and more.

Wiley and Sons Inc., New York, 1997

https://www.amazon.it/Novel-Optical-Materials-Applications-English-ebook/dp/B000VXHCMK

Contents:

  • Molecular Nonlinear Optics: Fundamentals and Applications (I .Ledoux and J.Zyss)
  • Cascading: A Promising Approach to Nonlinear Optical Phenomena (G. Stegemann et al.)
  • Ultrashort-Pulse Second Harmonic Generation (A. Knoesen et al.)
  • Nonclassical Light Production from Atoms and Nonlinear Excitons (E. Hanamura et al.)
  • Nonlinear Effects in Nematics Doped by Dyes and Chiral Agents (G. Abbate et al.)
  • Two and Four-Wave Mixing in Photoreactive Materials for Dynamic Correction of Pulsed Laser Beams  (L. Mager et al.)
  • New Nonlinear Materials for High-Power Frequency Conversion: From the Near-Ultraviolet to the Long-Wave Infrared (M.J. Rosker and H.O. Marcy)
  • IntersubbandTransitionsfor Infrared Electro-optics and Nonlinear Optics  (J. R. Meyer et al.)
  • Toward Subfemtosecond Pulses ans Solitons (A.E. Kaplan and P.L. Shkolnikov)
  • Fullurene-Doped Liquid Crystal Fibers and Fiber Arrays for All-Optical Switching  (I.C. Khoo)
  • Photoinduced Circular Birefringence: Principles, Materials, and Applications (C. Buss et al.)

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World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1994

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https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/1658

  • Interaction of Atoms with Very Intense Fields (C. Altucci et al.)
  • Spin-Orbit Interaction of a Photon in an Inhomogeneous Medium (V.S. Liberman & B.Ya. Zel’dovich)
  • Photoinduced Magnetic Kerr Rotation in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors (S. Hugonnard-Bruyère et al.)
  • Local Field Corrections in Linear and Nonlinear Optics (R.W. Boyd & J.E. Sipe)
  • Electromagnetic Vacuum Confinement Effects in the Optical Microscopic Cavity (F. De Martini et al.)
  • Radiative Renormalization Applied to Strong Field, Resonant Nonlinear Optical Interactions (O. Blum et al.)
  • Prospects for X-Ray Nonlinear Optics (A.E. Kaplan & P.L. Shkolnikov)
  • Principal Nonresonant Optical Nonlinearities of Nematic and Isotropic Liquid Crystals (I.C. Khoo)
  • Nonlinear Photonics in Crystalline Organic Multiple Quantum Wells (J.F. Lam)
  • Ultrafast All-Optical Waveguide Switching (G.I. Stegeman)
  • Resonant Phase Conjugation (C.J. Gaeta)
  • Photorefractive Nonlinear Optics and Applications (P. Yeh & C. Gu)
  • Optical Parametric Oscillators (C.L. Tang)
  • Generation of Femtosecond Laser Pulses and Application to Nonlinear Optics (A. Cybo-Ottone et al.)
  • The Optics of Porous Glasses (G.B. Altshuler)
  • Periodic Alternation, Chaotic Itinerancy and Space-Time Chaos in Optics: Patterns and Topological Defects (F.T. Arecchi et al.)

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This book is based on lectures delivered at the Summer School on the Physics of Liquid Crystals, held in Bra, Italy. 4-14 October 1988

Organising Co-chairs: R.Bartolino, L.Fronzoni, F.Simoni

It includes seven chapters on microscopic properties of liquid crystals, eight chapters collective phenomena wiht an addition of seven chapters on special topics related to liquid crystals.

Gordon and Breach Science Publisher, Philadelphia, 1991.

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