羅伯特·博伊德(Robert W. Boyd)教授擁有麻省理工學(xué)院物理學(xué)學(xué)士學(xué)位(1969年)和加州大學(xué)伯克利分校物理學(xué)博士學(xué)位(1977年)。他的博士論文由 Charles H. Townes 教授指導(dǎo),內(nèi)容涉及利用非線性光學(xué)技術(shù)進行天文學(xué)紅外探測。博伊德教授于 1977 年加入羅切斯特大學(xué)光學(xué)研究所,自 1987 年以來一直擔(dān)任光學(xué)教授一職。此外,他還兼任物理學(xué)教授。2002 年,他被任命為首位 M. Parker Givens 冠名光學(xué)教授。2010 年,他成為渥太華大學(xué)物理教授和加拿大量子非線性光學(xué)卓越研究主席,同時保留了與羅切斯特大學(xué)的聯(lián)系。博伊德是美國光學(xué)學(xué)會(OSA)院士,2016年,他因 “對非線性光學(xué)領(lǐng)域做出的基礎(chǔ)性貢獻,包括光速控制方法、量子成像方法和復(fù)合非線性光學(xué)材料的開發(fā) ”而獲得查爾斯-哈德-湯恩斯獎?wù)拢–harles Hard Townes Medal)。2023年,他因“在非線性光學(xué)(包括慢光、量子成像以及納米復(fù)合光學(xué)材料和超材料的開發(fā))領(lǐng)域做出開創(chuàng)性貢獻”而獲得弗雷德里克-艾夫斯獎?wù)?賈魯斯-奎恩獎(Frederic Ives Medal / Jarus W. Quinn Prize)。
圖書目錄
Preface to the Fourth Edition Preface to the Third Edition Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Chapter 1: The Nonlinear Optical Susceptibility 1.1 Introduction to Nonlinear Optics 1.2 Descriptions of Nonlinear Optical Processes 1.2.1 Second-Harmonic Generation 1.2.2 Sum- and Difference-Frequency Generation 1.2 3 Sum-Frequency Generation 1.2.4 Difference-Frequency Generation 1.2.5 Optical Parametric Oscillations 1.2.6 Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Processes 1.2.7 Third-Harmonic Generation 1.2.8 Intensity-Dependent Refractive Index 1.2.9 Third-Order Interactions (General Case) 1.2.10 Parametric versus Nonparametric Processes 1.2.11 Saturable Absorption 1.2.12 Two-Photon Absorption 1.2.13 Stimulated Raman Scattering 1.3 Formal Definition of the Nonlinear Susceptibility 1.4 Nonlinear Susceptibility of a Classical Anharmonic Oscillator 1.4.1 Noncentrosymmetric Media 1.4.2 Miller's Rule 1.4.3 Centrosymmetric Media 1.5 Properties of the Nonlinear Susceptibility 1.5.1 Reality of the Fields 1.5.2 Intrinsic Permutation Symmetry 1.5.3 Symmetries for Lossless Media 1.5.4 Field Energy Density for a Nonlinear Medium 1.5.5 Kleinman's Symmetry 1.5.6 Contracted Notation 1.5.7 Effective Value of d (deff) 1.5.8 Spatial Symmetry of the Nonlinear Medium 1.5.9 Influence of Spatial Symmetry on the Linear Optical Properties of a Material Medium 1.5.10 Influence of Inversion Symmetry on the Nonlinear Second-Order Response 1.5.11 Influence of Spatial Symmetry on the Second-Order Susceptibility 1.5.12 Number of Independent Elements of xijk(2) (ω3, ω2,ω1) 1.5.13 Distinction between Noncentrosymmetric and Cubic Crystal Classes 1.5.14 Distinction between Noncentrosymmetric and Polar Crystal Classes 1.5.15 Influence of Spatial Symmetry on the Third-Order Nonlinear Response 1.6 Time-Domain Description of Optical Nonlinearities 1.7 Kramers-Kronig Relations in Linear and Nonlinear Optics 1.7.1 Kramers-Kronig Relations in Linear Optics 1.7.2 Kramers-Kronig Relations in Nonlinear Optics Problems References Chapter 2: Wave-Equation Description of Nonlinear Optical Interactions 2.1 The Wave Equation for Nonlinear Optical Media 2.2 The Coupled-Wave Equations for Sum-Frequency Generation 2.2.1 Phase-Matching Considerations 2.3 Phase Matching 2.4 Quasi-Phase-Matching (QPM) 2.5 The Manley-Rowe Relations 2.6 Sum-Frequency Generation 2.7 Second-Harmonic Generation 2.7.1 Applications of Second-Harmonic Generation 2.8 Difference-Frequency Generation and Parametric Amplification 2.9 Optical Parametric Oscillators 2.9.1 Influence of Cavity Mode Structure on OPO Tuning 2.10 Nonlinear Optical Interactions with Focused Gaussian Beams 2.10.1 Paraxial Wave Equation 2.10.2 Gaussian Beams 2.10.3 Harmonic Generation Using Focused Gaussian Beams 2.11 Nonlinear Optics at an Interface 2.12 Advanced Phase Matching Method Problems References Chapter 3: Quantum-Mechanical Theory of the Nonlinear Optical Susceptibility 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Schrodinger Equation Calculation of the Nonlinear Optical Susceptibility 3.2.1 Energy Eigenstates 3.2.2 Perturbation Solution to Schrödinger's Equation 3.2.3 Linear Susceptibility 3.2.4 Second-Order Susceptibility 3.2.5 Third-Order Susceptibility 3.2.6 Third-Harmonic Generation in Alkali Metal Vapors 3.3 Density Matrix Formulation of Quantum Mechanics 3.3.1 Example: Two-Level Atom 3.4 Perturbation Solution of the Density Matrix Equation of Motion 3.5 Density Matrix Calculation of the Linear Susceptibility 3.5.1 Linear Response Theory 3.6 Density Matrix Calculation of the Second-Order Susceptibility 3.6.1 χ(2) in the Limit of Nonresonant Excitation 3.7 Density Matrix Calculation of the Third-Order Susceptibility 3.8 Electromagnetically Induced Transparency 3.9 Local-Field Effects in the Nonlinear Optics 3.9.1 Local-Field Effects in Linear Optics 3.9.2 Local-Field Effects in Nonlinear Optics Problems References Chapter 4: The Intensity-Dependent Refractive Index 4.1 Descriptions of the Intensity-Dependent Refractive Index 4.2 Tensor Nature of the Third-Order Susceptibility 4.2.1 Propagation through Isotropic Nonlinear 4.3 Nonresonant Electronic Nonlinearities 4.3.1 Classical, Anharmonic Oscillator Model of Electronic Nonlinearities 4.3.2 Quantum-Mechanical Model of Nonresonant Electronic Nonlinearities 4.3.3 χ(3) in the Low-Frequency Limit 4.4 Nonlinearities Due to Molecular Orientation 4.4.1 Tensor Properties of χ(3) for the Molecular Orientation Effect 4.5 Thermal Nonlinear Optical Effects 4.5.1 Thermal Nonlinearities with Continuous-Wave Laser Beams 4.5.2 Thermal Nonlinearities with Pulsed Laser Beams 4.6 Semiconductor Nonlinearities 4.6.1 Nonlinearities Resulting from Band-to-Band Transitions 4.6.2 Nonlinearities Involving Virtual Transitions 4.7 Concluding Remarks Problems Reference Chapter 5: Molecular Origin of the Nonlinear Optical Response 5.1 Nonlinear Susceptibilities Calculated Using Time-Independent Perturbationin 5.1.1 Hydrogen Atom 5.1.2 General Expression for the Nonlinear Susceptibility in the Quasi-Static Timit 5.2 Semiempirical Models of the Nonlinear Optical Susceptibility Model of Boling, Glass, and Owyoung 5.3 Nonlinear Optical Properties of Conjugated Polymers 5.4 Bond-Charge Model of Nonlinear Optical Properties 5.5 Nonlinear Optics of Chiral Media 5.6 Nonlinear Optics of Liquid Crystals Problems References Chapter 6: Nonlinear Optics in the Two-Level Approximation 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Density Matrix Equations of Motion for a Two-Level Atom 6.2.1 Closed Two-Level Atom 6.2.2 Open Two-Level Atom 6.2.3 Two-Level Atom with a Non-Radiatively Coupled Third Level 6.3 Steady-State Response of a Two-Level Atom to a Monochromatic Field 6.4 Optical Bloch Equations 6.4.1 Harmonic Oscillator Form of the Density Matrix Equation 6.4.2 Adiabatic-Following Limit 6.5 Rabi Oscillations and Dressed Atomic States 6.5.1 Rabi Solution of the Schrödinger Equation 6.5.2 Solution for an Atom Initially in the Ground State 6.5.3 Dressed States 6.5.4 Inclusion of Relaxation Phenomena 6.6 Optical Wave Mixing in Two-Level Systems 6.6.1 Solution of the Density Matrix Equations for a Two-Level Atom in the Presence of Pump and Probe Fields 6.6.2 Nonlinear Susceptibility and Coupled-Amplitude Equations Problems References Chapter 7: Processes Resulting from the Intensity-Dependent Refractive Index 7.1 Self-Focusing of Light and Other Self-Action Effects 7.1.1 Self-Trapping of Light 7.1.2 Mathematical Description of Self-Action Effects 7.1.3 Laser Beam Breakup into Many Filaments 7.1.4 Self-Action Effects with Pulsed Laser Beam 7.2 Optical Phase Conjugation 7.2.1 Aberration Correction by Phase Conjugation 7.2.2 Phase Conjugation by Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing 7.2.3 Polarization Properties of Phase Conjugation 7.3 Optical Bistability and Optical Switchin 7.3.1 Absorptive Bistability 7.3.2 Refractive Bistabilit 7.3.3 Optical Switching 7.4 Two-Beam Coupling 7.5 Pulse Propagation and Temporal Soliton 7.5.1 Self-Phase Modulation 7.5.2 Pulse Propagation Equation 7.5.3 Temporal Optical Soliton Problems References Chapter 8: Spontaneous Light Scattering and Acoustooptics 8.1 Features of Spontaneous Light Scattering 8.1.1 Fluctuations as the Origin of Light Scattering 8.1.2 Scattering Coeffcient 8.1.3 Scattering Cross Sectio 8.2 Microscopic Theory of Light Scattering 8.3 Thermodynamic Theory of Scalar Light Scattering 8.3.1 Ideal Gas 8.3.2 Spectrum of the Scattered Light 8.3.3 Brillouin Scattering 8.3.4 Stokes Scattering (First Term in Eq. (8.3.36)) 8.3.5 Anti-Stokes Scattering (Second Term in Eq. (8.3.36)) 8.3.6 Rayleigh Center Scattering 8.4 Acoustooptics 8.4.1 Bragg Scattering of Light by Sound Waves 8.4.2 Raman-Nath Effect Problems References Chapter 9: Stimulated Brillouin and Stimulated Rayleigh Scattering 9.1 Stimulated Scattering Processes 9.2 Electrostriction 9.3 Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (Induced by Electrostriction) 9.3.1 Pump Depletion Effects in SBS 9.3.2 SBS Generator 9.3.3 Transient and Dynamical Features of SBS 9.4 Phase Conjugation by Stimulated Brillouin Scattering 9.5 Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Gases 9.6 General Theory of Stimulated Brillouin and Stimulated Rayleigh Scattering 9.6.1 Appendix: Definition of the Viscosity Coefficients Problems References Chapter 10: Stimulated Raman Scattering and Stimulated Rayleigh-Wing Scattering 10.1 The Spontaneous Raman Effect 10.2 Spontaneous versus Stimulated Raman Scattering 10.3 Stimulated Raman Scattering Described by the Nonlinear Polarization 10.4 Stokes-Anti-Stokes Coupling in Stimulated Raman Scattering 10.4.1 Dispersionless, Nonlinear Medium without Gain or Loss 10.4.2 Medium without a Nonlinearity 10.4.3 Stokes-Anti-Stokes Coupling in Stimulated Raman Scattering 10.5 Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering 10.6 Stimulated Rayleigh-Wing Scattering 10.6.1 Polarization Properties of Stimulated Rayleigh-Wing Scatterings Problems References Chapter 11: The Electrooptic and Photorefractive Effects 11.1 Introduction to the Electrooptic Effect 11.2 Linear Electrooptic Effect 11.3 Electrooptic Modulators 11.4 Introduction to the Photorefractive Effect 11.5 Photorefractive Equations of Kukhtarev et al. 11.6 Two-Beam Coupling in Photorefractive Materials 11.7 Four-Wave Mixing in Photorefractive Materials 11.7.1 Externally Self-Pumped Phase-Conjugate Mirror 11.7.2 Internally Self-Pumped Phase-Conjugate Mirror 11.7.3 Double Phase-Conjugate Mirror 11.7.4 Other Applications of Photorefractive Nonlinear Optics Problems References Chapter 12: Optically Induced Damage and Multiphoton Absorption 12.1 Introduction to Optical Damage 12.2 Avalanche-Breakdown Model 12.3 Influence of Laser Pulse Duration 12.4 Direct Photoionization 12.5 Multiphoton Absorption and Multiphoton lonization 12.5.1 Theory of Single- and Multiphoton Absorption and Fermi's Golden Rule 12.5.2 Linear (One-Photon) Absorption 12.5.3 Two-Photon Absorption 12.5.4 Multiphoton Absorption Problems References Chapter 13: Ultrafast and Intense-Field Nonlinear Optics 13.1 Introduction 13.2 Ultrashort-Pulse Propagation Equation 13.3 Interpretation of the Ultrashort-Pulse Propagation Equation 13.3.1 Self-Steepening 13.3.2 Space-Time Coupling 13.3.3 Supercontinuum Generation 13.4 Intense-Field Nonlinear Optics 13.5 Motion of a Free Electron in a Laser Field 13.6 High-Harmonic Generation 13.7 Tunnel Ionization and the Keldysh Model 13.8 Nonlinear Optics of Plasmas and Relativistic Nonlinear Optics 13.9 Nonlinear Quantum Electrodynamics Problem References Chapter 14: Nonlinear Optics of Plasmonic Systems 14.1 Introduction to Plasmonics 14.2 Simple Derivation of the Plasma Frequency 14.3 The Drude Model 14.4 Optical Properties of Gold 14.5 Surface Plasmon Polariton 14.6 Electric Field Enhancement in Plasmonic Systems Problems References Appendices Appendix A The SI System of Units A.1 Energy Relations and Poynting's Theorem A.2 The Wave Equation A.3 Boundary Conditions Appendix B The Gaussian System of Units Appendix C Systems of Units in Nonlinear Optics C.1 Conversion between the Systems Appendix D Relationship between Intensity and Field Strength Appendix E Physical Constants References Index