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Laser Physics

Proceedings of the Third New Zealand Symposium on Laser Physics, held at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, January 17–23, 1983

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 182)

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Table of contents (17 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Optical bistability in semiconductors

    • S. D. Smith, B. S. Wherrett
    Pages 1-13
  3. Optical bistability with two-level atoms

    • H. J. Kimble, D. E. Grant, A. T. Rosenberger, P. D. Drummond
    Pages 14-40
  4. Chaos in nonlinear optical systems

    • H. J. Carmichael
    Pages 64-87
  5. Spontaneous pulsations in lasers

    • Lee W. Casperson
    Pages 88-106
  6. Experimental evidence for self-pulsing and chaos in CW-excited lasers

    • N. B. Abraham, T. Chyba, M. Coleman, R. S. Gioggia, N. J. Halas, L. M. Hoffer et al.
    Pages 107-131
  7. Second harmonic generation in a resonant cavity

    • Paul Mandel, T. Erneux
    Pages 132-141
  8. On the generation of tunable ultrashort light pulses

    • A. Seilmeier, W. Kaiser
    Pages 142-151
  9. Multiphoton ionization of atoms

    • G. Leuchs
    Pages 174-194
  10. An introduction to the physics of laser fusion

    • B. Luther-Davies
    Pages 226-237
  11. Distribution functions in quantum optics

    • R. F. O'Connell
    Pages 238-248
  12. Quantum non demolition measurements

    • D. F. Walls, G. J. Milburn
    Pages 249-263

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Laser Physics

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Third New Zealand Symposium on Laser Physics, held at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, January 17–23, 1983

  • Editors: J. D. Harvey, D. F. Walls

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-12305-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-12305-7Published: 01 May 1983

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-39891-2Published: 13 July 2005

  • Series ISSN: 0075-8450

  • Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: V, 267

  • Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Quantum Optics

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