Laser Beam Propagation in Nonlinear Optical Media

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Author Biographies

Acknowledgements

1    Light Propagation in Anisotropic Crystals

1.1    Introduction

1.2    Vectors Associated With Light Propagation

1.2.1    Plane waves

1.2.2    Non-plane waves

1.3    Anisotropic Media

1.3.1    The principal coordinate axes

1.3.2    Three crystal classes

1.3.3    The principal refractive indices

1.4    Light Propagation In An Anisotropic Crystal

1.4.1    Allowed directions of $\tilde{D}$ and $\tilde{E}$ in an anisotropic medium

1.4.2    Values of n for a given propagation direction

1.4.3    Directions of D and E for the slow and fast waves

1.5    Characteristics Of The Slow And The Fast Waves In A Biaxial Crystal

1.5.1    n_s and n_f

1.5.2    ρ_s and ρ_f

1.5.3    The components ...