Solid State Optics.
Abstract
Work on nonlinear interaction of light with antiferromagnetic materials, and thermoelastic materials is described. The Dirac Theory of Poisson brackets usually used to handle the constraint problem in electrodynamics has been applied to handle magnetic materials whose magnetization vector has a fixed length. A microscopic approach toward nonlinear optics has been started. This work reported here, provides a localized orbital estimate for nonlinear optical constants. The paraxial wave optics method with intensity and slope as the key variables avoids the rapid phase fluctuations that occur when field amplitudes are used as variables. A program to use equations for these variables to describe an unstable resonator with rectangular mirrors is being written. The spatial distribution of the temperature rise in a solid induced by a Gaussian laser beam of width w and power P is expressed as a one dimensional integral.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 10, 1977
- Accession Number
- ADA041822
Entities
People
- Melvin Lax
Organizations
- City College of New York