Matrix, ray 121
Matrix, theory 34
Matrix, unitary transformation matrix 37
Maxwell, equations 83 115
Maxwell, velocity distribution 174
Minimum spot size 138
Minimum uncertainty 13
Minimum uncertainty, wavepacket 13 21
Modal coupling 606
Modal dispersion, by compensation 497
Mode propagation constant, periodic waveguide 613
Mode, confinement in semiconductor lasers 249
Mode, coupling 623 625
Mode, density 99 136
Mode, energy 80 81
Mode, locking 542
Mode, locking by saturable absorber 565
Mode, locking, homogeneously broadened laser systems 553
Mode, locking, loss modulation 548
Mode, locking, methods of 546
Mode, locking, passive 565
Mode, locking, phase modulation 557
Modulation of optical radiation 298
Modulation of semiconductor lasers 255 256
Molecular collisions 218
Molecular lasers 217
Molecular Raman scattering 457
Molecular Raman scattering, stimulated 465
Momentum, conservation 425
Momentum, operator 16
Momentum, wavefunction 7
Momentum, wavepacket 13
Multiquantum well lasers 274
Neodymium laser 208
Neodymium-glass laser 211
Noise due to particle namre of light 575
Noise in laser amplifiers 570
Noise in parametric amplification 425
Noise in parametric processes 424
Noise with aperture stop 575
Noise, spontaneous emission 577 579
Noncentrosymmetric crystal classes 300
Nonlinear Hamiltonian 104 383
Nonlinear optical coefficients 387
Nonlinear optical tensor 381
Nonlinear optics 378
Nonlinear optics, quantum treatment 421
Nonlinear polarization 383
Nonlinear susceptibility 378
Normal (index) surfaces 396
Normalization condition 59
Number of quanta 14 81
One-mode Hamiltonian 101
Operators 4
Operators, representations 38
Optical beams, self-focusing 482
Optical branch of acoustic vibration 72
Optical fibers 114
Optical fibers, chirping 645
Optical fibers, pulse dispersion in 646 647
Optical fibers, pulse spreading in 642
Optical fibers, vector wave equations 640
Optical fields, polarization state 309
Optical gain in free-electron lasers 283
Optical gain in semiconductors 237
Optical indicatrix 90
Optical pumping 209
Optical radiation, modulation 298
Optical resonator algebra 139
Optical resonators 136
Optical resonators, losses in 147
Optical resonators, unstable 149
Optimum coupling in lasers 194
Optimum focusing 402
Ordinary ray 92
Organic-dye lasers 224
Orthogonal quadrature 441
Orthonormal set of functions 37
Orthonormality of the wavefunctions 8
Oscillating mode spectrum 260
Oscillation condition, distributed feedback lasers 619
Oscillation frequency of a laser 187
Oscillation in lasers, relaxation 560
Oscillation, raman 468
Parametric amplification 407 431
Parametric amplification, 411
Parametric amplification, backward propagation 435
Parametric amplification, quantum fluctuations in 424
Parametric fluorescence 432
Parametric fluorescence, spontaneous 430
Parametric interactions 428
Parametric interactions, contradirectional 436
Parametric interactions, fluctuations in 425
Parametric interactions, quantum description 421
Parametric oscillation 411 412
Parametric oscillation, angle tuning 420
Parametric oscillation, matrix formalism for 413
Parametric oscillation, phase matching in 416
Parametric oscillation, threshold 415
Parametric oscillator, doubly resonant 414
Parametric oscillator, singly resonant 416
Parametric up-conversion 426
Paraxial ray 106
Parity 18 29
Particle density current 3
Periodic perturbation of bulk properties 616
Periodic waveguide-distributed feedback lasers 608
Periodic waveguide-distributed feedback lasers, mode propagation constant 613
Periodic waveguides 70
Perturbation, Hamiltonian 50
Perturbation, harmonic 52
Perturbation, step function 56
Perturbation, theory 47
Phase amplitude, coupling 594
Phase amplitude, coupling constant, measurement of 595
Phase conjugate optics 495 498
Phase conjugate optics, applications 510 513
Phase conjugate optics, distortion correction 504
Phase conjugate optics, experimental demonstration 504 505
Phase conjugate optics, four-wave mixing 498 501
Phase conjugate optics, passive phase conjugation 526
Phase conjugate optics, photorefractive effect 516 517
Phase conjugate optics, stimulated nonlinear scattering 513
Phase matching 338 393 436
Phase matching, condition in parametric amplification 416
Phase modulation of light 313
Phase velocity of light 88
Phase velocity of sound 73
Photoelastic effect 325
Photoelastic tensor 325
Photon echoes 355
Photon lifetime 147
Photorefractive effect, phase conjugation 516
Photorefractive effect, response time 520
Photorefractive effect, space-charge field 520
Photorefractive mechanism, crystals for 517
Planar waveguides, modal characteristics 603 605
Plane-wave quantization 98
Pockel's effect 300
| Poisson distribution 101
Polarization, elliptic 309
Polarization, state of optical fields 309
Pondermotive potential in free-election lasers 289
Power fluctuations spectrum 589
Power gain, laser medium 571
Power output from lasers 191
Power, instantaneous 587
Poynting 87
Precession frequency 159
Pressure broadening 218
Principal dielectric constants 379
Propagation of electromagnetic waves in periodic structures 70
Propagation of optical beams 106
Propagation through a distorting medium 495
Proustite 427
Pulse dispersion in optical libers 646—647
Pulse spreading 127
Q factor 148
Q-switching 534
Q-switching, methods of 540
Quadratic gain profile 127
Quadratic index 114
Quadratic media 113
Quadratic media, dispersion of 127
Quadrature, orthogonal 441
Quadrature-phase amplitude 440
Quanta fluctuations 437
Quanta of light 103
Quantization of electromagnetic fields 83
Quantization of lattice vibrations 68 76
Quantization of plane EM fields 98
Quantization of radiation field 96
Quantization of simple electrical LC circuit 105
Quantization of vector potential 99
Quantized vector potential 99
Quantum fluctuations in parametric amplification 424
Quantum mechanics, fundamental postulates of 1
Quantum treatment of nonlinear optics 421
Quantum well lasers 264
Quartz 74 392
Radiative transitions 193
Raman oscillation 468
Raman scattering 457
Raman scattering, cross section for molecular liquids 466
Raman scattering, lineshape function 466
Raman scattering, quantum mechanical description 459
Raman scattering, spontaneous 463 466
Raman scattering, stimulated 471
Raman scattering, stimulated molecular 465
Raman scattering, stimulated molecular, electromagnetic treatment 469
Rate equations in lasers 192
Ray matrices 108
Ray propagation 106 113
Ray reentrant 112
Ray stability 110 111
Real-time holography 512
Reciprocal lattice 235
Reentrant rays 112
Reflection coefficient 505
Relaxation oscillation 560
Relaxation processes 193
Relaxation resonance frequency 258
Relaxation time, population 157
Relaxation time, spin-spin 157
Resonator algebra 139
Resonator(s), electromagnetic field-normal mode-expansion of 94
Resonator(s), generalized theory 142
Resonator(s), phase conjugate 506
Resonator(s), phase conjugate, ABCD formalism of 507
Response time, photorefractive effect 520
Response time, photorefractive effect, dependence on intensity 521
Retardation, electrooptic 307
Rhodamine 6G 227
Rotating coordinate system 347
Ruby crystal 170
Ruby laser 202 206
Saturation intensity 176 223 225
Saturation intensity, inhomogeneous line 179
Schroedinger wave equation 1 343
Schroedinger wave equation in spherically symmetric potential fields 27
Schroedinger wave equation, time dependent 101
Schroedinger wave equation, time independent 7 18
Schwarz inequality 12
Second-harmonic generation 378 392
Second-harmonic generation with Gaussian beams 401
Second-harmonic generation, internal 402
Self-focusing of optical beams 482
Self-focusing of optical beams in carbon disulfide 488
Self-induced transparency 357
Semiconductor, diode lasers 232
Semiconductor, gain in 244
Semiconductor, lasers, frequency chirping in 259
Semiconductor, mode confinement in 249
Semiconductor, modulation of 255 256
Semiconductor, theory 232
Singlet states 225
Slater mode expansion 189
Solid-state laser 211
Space-charge field 520
Space-charge field, spatially periodic magnet 281
Spectra, of laser 586
Spectral-density function 445 583
Spherical mirror resonators 136
Spin angular momentum 45
Spin-spin relaxation time 157
Spontaneous emission 196
Spontaneous emission in free-electron lasers 292
Spontaneous emission, lifetime 166
Spontaneous emission, noise 579
Spontaneous parametric fluorescence 430
Spontaneous transitions, the Einstein treatment 171
Spot size 141
Squeezed states 437
Stability criteria for laser resonators 142
Stability criteria for optical modes 141
Stability criteria, criteria for rays 111
Stability criteria, diagram 143
Step function perturbation 56
Stretching vibrations, atomic groups 459
Supermodes 631
Supermodes near field, far field 637
Supermodes, directional coupling 634
Supermodes, eigenfunction representation 633
Supermodes, N-channel system 636
Superradiance 352
Superradiant emission 354
Symmetrical mirror resonator 140
Tapered wigglers 294
TE modes 603
Tellurium 405
Thermal radiation (blackbody) energy density 100
Third-order optical nonlinearities 45
Three-dimensional harmonic oscillator 31
Threshold inversion 186
Threshold inversion, density 186
Time-dependent Schroedinger equation 101
Time-evolution operator 58
Time-independent perturbation theory 47
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