Description
Optical bistability in semiconductors.- Optical bistability with two-level atoms.- Optical bistability and non absorption resonance in atomic sodium.- Polarization switching and optical bistability with resonantly driven J=1/2 to J=1/2 atoms in a ring cavity.- Chaos in nonlinear optical systems.- Spontaneous pulsations in lasers.- Experimental evidence for self-pulsing and chaos in CW-excited lasers.- Second harmonic generation in a resonant cavity.- On the generation of tunable ultrashort light pulses.- Raman spectroscopy with ultrashort coherent excitation. Narrowing of spectral lines beyond the dephasing linewidth.- An autocorrelator for the measurement of CW ultrashort optical pulses having frequency variations.- Multiphoton ionization of atoms.- Pump dynamical effects in superfluorescent quantum initiation and pulse evolution.- Coherent population trapping and the effect of laser phase fluctuations.- An introduction to the physics of laser fusion.- Distribution functions in quantum optics.- Quantum non demolition measurements.
