Laser Physics

Optical bistability in semiconductors....Pages 1-13
Optical bistability with two-level atoms....Pages 14-40
Optical bistability and non absorption resonance in atomic sodium....Pages 41-53
Polarization switching and optical bistability with resonantly driven J=1/2 to J=1/2 atoms in a ring cavity....Pages 54-63
Chaos in nonlinear optical systems....Pages 64-87
Spontaneous pulsations in lasers....Pages 88-106
Experimental evidence for self-pulsing and chaos in CW-excited lasers....Pages 107-131
Second harmonic generation in a resonant cavity....Pages 132-141
On the generation of tunable ultrashort light pulses....Pages 142-151
Raman spectroscopy with ultrashort coherent excitation. Narrowing of spectral lines beyond the dephasing linewidth....Pages 152-163
An autocorrelator for the measurement of CW ultrashort optical pulses having frequency variations....Pages 164-173
Multiphoton ionization of atoms....Pages 174-194
Pump dynamical effects in superfluorescent quantum initiation and pulse evolution....Pages 195-212
Coherent population trapping and the effect of laser phase fluctuations....Pages 213-225
An introduction to the physics of laser fusion....Pages 226-237
Distribution functions in quantum optics....Pages 238-248
Quantum non demolition measurements....Pages 249-263