ECSE 572. Nonlinear Optics.

Nonlinear optical processes and their applications: optical fibres, waveguides and crystals. Origin of second- and third-order nonlinear susceptibility, symmetry properties, coupled-wave propagation, phase-matching techniques, sum- and difference frequency generation, parametric amplification, four-wave mixing, self- and cross-phase modulation, soliton propagation, Raman scattering and the electro-optic effect.