Nonlinear optics in daily life

Nonlinear optics in daily life.

An overview is presented of the impact of NLO on today's daily life. While NLO researchers have promised many applications, only a few have changed our lives so far. This paper categorizes applications of NLO into three areas: improving lasers, interaction with materials, and information technology. NLO provides: coherent light of different wavelengths; multi-photon absorption for plasma-materi...

Nonlinear Optics Basics: Kramers-Krönig Relations in Nonlinear Optics

Synthesis of TiO2-ZnO-ZrO2 Nanocomposites for Nonlinear Optics Applications

A sol-gel technique under ultrasonic irradiation was applied to synthesize ZrO2/TiO2/ZnOnanocomposites. X-ray diffraction analysis confirmed the successful synthesis of nanocomposites. The strain and crystalline size values of ZrO2/TiO2/ZnO nanocomposites are estimated to be 9.98×10-4 and 17.66 nm, respectively. The linear absorption coefficient of ZrO2/TiO2/ZnO nanocomposites was measure...

Developments in Relativistic Nonlinear Optics

We report recent results of experiments and simulations in the regime of peak laser intensities above 10 W/cm, including the following topics: (1) electron and proton acceleration to energies in excess of 10 MeV in well collimated beams; (2) use of laser chirp to control the growth of plasma waves and acceleration of electrons by the Raman instability; (3) all optical injection and acceleration...

Intermediate Models in Nonlinear Optics

In this paper, new models are derived for laser propagation in a nonlinear medium. These models are intermediate between nonlinear Maxwell systems and nonlinear Schrödinger equations and are exact in linear cases. We prove rigorous error estimates for a generic class of systems. In the last section, we perform numerical tests in order to investigate the numerical effectivity of the bounds given...