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Progress in optics. Volume 59 /
In the 50 years since the first volume of Progress in Optics was published, optics has become one of the most dynamic fields of science. The volumes in this series that have appeared up to now contain more than 300 review articles by distinguished research workers, which have become permanent record...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Kidlington, Oxford ; Amsterdam, Netherlands :
Elsevier,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Half Title; Editorial Advisory Board; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 Active Optical Metamaterials; 1 Introduction; 2 Nanoplasmonic Metamaterials; 2.1 Plasmonics: Optics on the Nanoscale; 2.1.1 Electromagnetic Fields in Media: Maxwell's Equations; 2.1.2 Dispersive Response Models; 2.1.3 Plasmons on the Surface of Metals; 2.1.4 Time-Domain Description of Surface Plasmons; 2.2 Metamaterials: Control of the Flow of Light on the Nanoscale; 2.2.1 Effective Electric Metamaterials; 2.2.2 Effective Magnetic Metamaterials; 2.2.3 Extraction of Effective Parameters
- 2.3 Negative Refractive Index Metamaterials2.4 The Double-Fishnet Metamaterial; 2.5 Losses in Nanoplasmonic Metamaterials; 3 Optical Gain Media in Nanoplasmonics; 3.1 Comparison of Optical Gain Media; 3.2 Laser Dye Gain Media; 3.3 Full Time-Domain Optical Maxwell-Bloch Equations; 3.3.1 Optical Bloch Equations for Two-Level Systems; 3.3.2 Semiclassical Maxwell-Bloch Equations for Four-Level Systems; 4 Loss Compensation in a Nanoplasmonic Negative Refractive Index Metamaterial; 4.1 Optical Properties of Passive Double-Fishnet Metamaterials; 4.2 Active Double-Fishnet Metamaterial
- 4.3 Inhomogeneous Deposition of Gain4.4 The Probe Process: Plasmonic Resonator with Gain; 4.5 Effective Parameters of the Loss-Compensated Double Fishnet; 4.6 Summary; 5 Nonlinear Dynamics of Bright and Dark Lasing States; 5.1 Bright and Dark Modes; 5.2 Ultra-Fast Relaxation Oscillations; 5.3 Nonlinear Mode Competition; 5.4 Threshold Behavior; 5.5 Methods for Mode Control; 5.6 Summary; 6 Conclusion and Outlook; Acknowledgments; References; 2 Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion in Nonlinear Layered Structures; 1 Introduction
- 2 Spatial Vector Quantum Model of Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion2.1 Nonlinear Interaction Momentum Operator; 2.2 Free-Field Propagation; 2.3 Perturbation Solution of the Nonlinear Interaction; 3 Model of Surface Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion; 3.1 Nonlinear Interaction in an lth Layer; 3.2 Nonlinear Interaction in the Whole Structure; 4 Quantities Characterizing an Emitted Photon Pair; 5 Design of an Efficient Nonlinear Layered Structure; 6 Intensity Profiles and Correlations in the Transverse Plane; 6.1 Structure Composed of 11 Layers; 6.2 Structure Composed of 51 Layers
- 6.3 Structure Composed of 101 Layers7 Intensity Spectra and Temporal Correlations; 8 Ultra-Fast Pumping of Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion; 9 Surface Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion; 10 Photon Pairs Anti-Symmetric in Signal and Idler Frequencies- Anti-Bunching of Photons; 11 Random Nonlinear Layered Structures; 12 Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; 3 Spatial Heterodyne Fourier-Transform Waveguide Spectrometers; 1 Introduction to Fourier-Transform Spectroscopy; 2 Stationary Fourier Spectrometers in Bulk Optics; 2.1 Fundamental Concepts of Stationary Fourier Spectroscopy