Solid State Theory Meets Photonics: The Curious Optical Properties of Photonic Crystals -- Circular Photo-Galvanic and Spin-Galvanic Effects -- Nano-Photoluminescence -- Spectral Trimming of Photonic Crystals -- Full Counting Statistics in Quantum Contacts -- Quantum Dots Attached to Ferromagnetic Leads: Exchange Field, Spring Precession, and Kondo Effect -- Transport of Interaction Electrons T…
Lasers with Nonresonant Feedback and Laserlike Emission from Powders: Early Ideas and Experiments -- Neodymium Random Lasers: Experimental Studies of Stimulated Emission -- Propagation of Light in Neodymium Random Lasers -- Theoretical Modeling of Neodymium Random Lasers -- Engineering Aspects of Neodymium Random Lasers: External Seeding, Design, and Second Harmonic Generation -- Random Lasers …
Elements of Quantum Dynamics -- Electron-Impurity System -- Linear Response Theory -- Bosons Interacting with Electrons -- Interacting Phonon Systems -- Effects of Electron-Electron Interaction -- Non-Equilibrium Electrons -- Non-Equilibrium Diagram Technique -- Kinetics of Bounded Systems -- Quantum Magnetotransport -- Photoexcitation -- Ballistic and Hopping Transport -- Multi-Channel Kinetic…
Classical and Quantum Interference and Coherence -- Quantum Interference in Atomic Systems: Mathematical Formalism -- Superposition States and Modification of Spontaneous Emission Rates -- Quantum Interference as a Control of Decoherence -- Coherence Effects in Multi-Level Systems -- Field Induced Quantum Interference -- Slow and Fast Light and Storage of Photons -- Quantum Interference in Phas…
Near-Field Imaging of Magnetic Domains -- Improvement of Interface Quality in Cleaved-Edge-Overgrowth GaAs Quantum Wires Based on Micro-optical Characterization -- Recombination Dynamics in InxGa1™xN-Based Nanostructures -- Quantum Theory of Radiation in Optical Near Field Based on Quantization of Evanescent Electromagnetic Waves Using Detector Mode.This volume focuses on the characterization…
Near-Field Optical Fiber Probes and the Imaging Applications -- A Novel Method for Forming Uniform Surface-Adsorbed Metal Particles and Development of a Localized Surface-Plasmon Resonance Sensor -- Near-Field Optical-Head Technology for High-Density, Near-Field Optical Recording -- Nano-Optical Media for Ultrahigh-Density Storage -- A Phenomenological Description of Optical Near Fields and Opt…
Basic Nonlinear Optical Crystals -- Main Infrared Materials -- Often-Used Crystals -- Periodically Poled Crystals and “Wafer” Materials -- Newly Developed and Perspective Crystals -- Self-Frequency-Doubling Crystals -- Rarely Used and Archive Crystals -- Some Recent Applications -- Concluding Remarks.Nonlinear optical crystals are widely used in modern optical science and technology for fre…
Selected Aspects of Few-Cycle Laser Pulses and Nonlinear Optics -- The Lorentz Oscillator Model and Beyond … -- The Drude Free-Electron Model and Beyond … -- Lorentz Becomes Drude: Bound—Unbound Transitions -- Accounting for Propagation Effects -- Extreme Nonlinear Optics of Semiconductors and Isolators -- Extreme Nonlinear Optics of Atoms and Electrons.Following the birth of the laser in…
Introduction -- Dissipative Solitons of the Swift-Hohenberg Equation -- Dissipative Magneto-Optic Solitons -- Dissipative Solitons in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers -- Dissipative Solitons in Pattern-Forming Nonlinear Optical Systems: Cavity Solitons and Feedback Solitons -- Solitons in Laser Schemes with Saturable Absorption -- Spatial Resonator Solitons -- Dissipative Temporal Solitons -- S…
Editorial Article -- Role of Entanglement in Quantum Computing and Information Processing -- Quantum Ensembles and Quantum Informatics -- Entanglement in Quantum Information Processing -- Easy Control Over Fermionic Computations -- Multiatom and Multiphoton Entanglement -- Multiatom and Multiphoton Entanglement -- On the Advanced Wave Model of Parametric Down-Conversion -- Quantum Logics Based …