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"This book covers the complete spectrum of nonlinear optics and all solid state lasers.The book integrates theory, calculations and practical design, technology, experimental schemes and applications. With the expansion and further development of Laser technology, the wavelength spectrum of Lasers had to be enlarged, even to be tunable which requires the use of nonlinear optical and Laser tunable technology. It systematically summarizes and integrates the analysis of international achievements within the last 20 years in this field."

"This thesis provides deep insights into currently controversial questions in laser filamentation, a highly complex phenomenon involving nonlinear optical effects and plasma physics. First, based on the concrete picture of a femtosecond laser beam which self-pinches its radial intensity distribution, the thesis delivers a novel explanation for the remarkable and previously unexplained phenomenon of pulse self-compression in filaments. Moreover, the work addresses the impact of a non-adiabatic change of both nonlinearity and dispersion on such an intense femtosecond pulse transiting from a gaseous dielectric material to a solid one. Finally, and probably most importantly, the author presents a simple and highly practical theoretical approach for quantitatively estimating the influence of higher-order nonlinear optical effects in optics. These results shed new light on recent experimental observations, which are still hotly debated and may completely change our understanding of filamentation, causing a paradigm change concerning the role of higher-order nonlinearities in optics."

"This text provides a comprehensive investigation of the role of disorder in the nonlinear optical propagation both in transparent media and lasers. Eventually, disorder promotes and enhances complex nonlinear dynamics opening new perspectives in applied research driven by the processes of localization of the electromagnetic field. The first experimental study of laser emission in granular media unveils how randomness magnifies and largely affect laser-matter interactions. "

"Fundamentals of Nonlinear Optics encompasses a broad spectrum of nonlinear phenomena from second-harmonic generation to soliton formation. The wide use of nonlinear optical phenomena in laboratories and commercial devices requires familiarity with the underlying physics as well as practical device considerations. This text adopts a combined approach to analyze the complimentary aspects of nonlinear optics, enabling a fundamental understanding of both a given effect and practical device applications. After a review chapter on linear phenomena important to nonlinear optics, the book tackles nonlinear phenomena with a look at the technologically important processes of second-harmonic generation, sum-frequency and difference-frequency generation, and the electro-optic effect. The author covers these processes in considerable detail at both theoretical and practical levels as the formalisms developed for these effects carry to subsequent topics, such as four-wave mixing, self-phase modulation, Raman scattering, Brillouin scattering, and soliton formation. Consistently connecting theory, process, effects, and applications, this introductory text encourages students to master key concepts and to solve nonlinear optics problems?preparing them for more advanced study. Along with extensive problems at the end of each chapter, it presents general algorithms accessible to any scientific graphical and programming package. "

"The basic principles for the development of laser, an acronym for: light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation, can be traced back to the paper written by Einstein in 1916 when he considered interaction of radiation and matter. In this paper Einstein predicted the existence of stimulated emission and' calculated the probability of its occurence. However, at thermal equilibrium the probability of absorption is larger than stimulated emission therefore the net effect is that light is always absorbed. The stimulated emission can be observed when some population inversion is generated in the material. In order to induce inverted population, one needs to have a proper understanding of the energy level scheme of the material.As a number of atomic or molecular spectra were successfully elucidated by workers in microwave spcectroscopy, the possibility of microwave amplification using stimulated emission from a system of inverted population became a subject of serious investigation. Experimentally the first operation of this amplifier was demonstrated by Townes et.al using amonia molecular beam. The name laser, acronym for: microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation, was proposed by this group.In 1958, Schawlow and Townes considered the feasibility of maser action at optical frequencies. In 1960, Maiman succeeded in operating a pulse ruby laser, while Sorokin et.al,demonstrated the infrared pulsed oscilla-Lion using a CaF2 crystal. The first continuous wave laser announced in 1961 by Javan et. Al. Since then, the development of laser progressed rapidly. At present laser oscillation can be obtained in a number of materials such as gas, solid state, semi-conductor, liquid (organic dye) and others. The oscillation wave length of these lasers covers the range from vacuum ultraviolet to far-infrared radiation. Table 1.1. shows the historical sketch of laser developments.The application of lasers covers a wide area of scientific and technological activities and taking advantages of laser a number of novel techniques have been developed in modern science and engineering. The application of laser may be divided into four categories as shown in Table 1.2 T based on the characteristics of laser radiation. The first is the use of energy density with typical examples in material processing and heating. The second is in the use of spatial characteristics of laser which is highly directional. Interferometric measurement and holography are examples in this category."

"This thesis covers central problems of enhancement cavities, such as finding limitations in scaling the circulating power, measuring cavity parameters with high accuracy, tailoring transverse modes and coupling out radiation generated in the cavity. Unprecedented intracavity laser powers were demonstrated, surpassing previous results by an order of magnitude. As an application, harmonics of the fundamental 1040-nm radiation up to the 21st order are generated. Besides reporting these fine experimental results, the thesis provides an excellent introduction into the physics of enhancement cavities, supported by more than 140 references. "