Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Optics, and Ultrafast Phenomena with X-Rays

Product Group: Book
Publisher: Springer (2003-08-31)
ISBN: 1402074751
EAN: 9781402074752
Dewy Decimal #: 621.366
Hardcover: 360 pages
Edition: 1

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Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Optics, and Ultrafast Phenomena with X-Rays is an introduction to cutting-edge science that is beginning to emerge on state-of-the-art synchrotron radiation facilities and will come to flourish with the x-ray free-electron lasers currently being planned. It is intended for the use by scientists at synchrotron radiation facilities working with the combination of x-rays and lasers and those preparing for the science at x-ray free-electron lasers. In the past decade synchrotron radiation sources have experienced a tremendous increase in their brilliance and other figures of merit. This progress, driven strongly by the scientific applications, is still going on and may actually be accelerating with the advent of x-ray free-electron lasers. As a result, a confluence of x-ray and laser physics is taking place, due to the increasing importance of laser concepts, such as coherence and nonlinear optics to the x-ray community and the importance of x-ray optics to the laser-generation of ultrashort pulses of x-rays. The topics addressed in Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Optics, and Ultrafast Phenomena with X-Rays are both theoretical and experimental. The theory parts cover x-ray nonlinear optics of weakly and strongly bound electrons, x-ray diffraction in a rapidly changing crystal structure with possible applications in the coherent sub-picosecond manipulation of x-rays, simulation studies of x-ray diffraction in the presence of strongly excited phonon modes, nonlinear optical x-ray diffraction and molecular dynamics studies of lattice dynamics and disintegration after ultrafast heating. Experimental results are shown for parametric down conversion of x-rays, x-ray diffractive measurements of lattice dynamics and laser pump, x-ray probe, time-resolved spectroscopy. Practical experimental issues are discussed in detail to help speed up the learning process for newcomers to the field. The accompanying CD contains color versions of the figures, photos of experimental setups and a video clip to demonstrate dynamical diffraction of x-rays.

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