Introduction to Nonlinear Optical Effects in Molecules and Polymers [Hardcover]

Molecular Dynamics in Restricted Geometries Edited by Joseph Klafter and J. M. Drake This investigation of the chemistry and physics of complex systems focuses on the role of spatial restrictions on molecular movement. A practical source-book for researchers in chemical physics, chemical engineering, and condensed matter physics, and for graduate students in these fields, it covers a broad range of topics and critically evaluates methods as they are employed. Among the many topics it covers are: relaxation and diffusion in restricted geometries, excitation energy transfer and photoinduced electron transfer phenomena in some confined systems, electron excitation transport in micelles, polymers and multilayers, and electron excitation transport on polymer chains. 1989 (0 471-60176-4) 437 pp.Basis and Formulation of Nonlinear Optics.

Origin of Microscopic Nonlinearity in Organic Systems.

Bulk Nonlinear Optical Susceptibility.

Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Processes.

Measurement Techniques for Second-Order Nonlinear OpticalEffects.

A Survey of Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Materials.

Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Processes.

Measurement Techniques for Third-Order Nonlinear OpticalEffects.

A Survey of Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Materials.

Nonlinear Optics in Optical Waveguides and Fibers.

Device Concepts.

Issues and Future Directions.

Appendix.

Index.About the authors PARAS N. PRASAD is Professor of Chemistry and Director of Photonics Research Laboratory at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he has been since 1974. He is the coeditor of the books Nonlinear Optical and Electroactive Polymers and Nonlinear Optical Effects in Organic Polymers. Dr. Prasad was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow anló-