Progress in Nonlinear Nano-Optics

This book presents the state of the art in nonlinear nanostructures for ultrafast laser applications. Most recent results in two emerging fields are presented: (i) generation of laser-induced nanostructures in materials like metals, metal oxides and semiconductors, and (ii) ultrafast excitation and energy transfer in nanoscale physical, chemical and hybrid systems. Particular emphasis is laid on the up-to-date controversially discussed mechanisms of sub-wavelength ripple formation including models of self-organized material transport and multiphoton excitation channels, nonlinear optics of plasmonic structures (nanotips, nanowires, 3D-metamaterials), and energy localization and transport on ultrafast time scale and spatial nanoscale. High-resolution spectroscopy, simulation and characterization techniques are reported. New applications of ultrashort-pulsed lasers for materials processing and the use of nanostructured materials for characterizing laser fields and laser-matter-interactions are discussed.

List of contents

Laser-Induced Nanostructures.- Nanostructures Formation at Metal Surfaces.- General Aspects and Structuring in Three Dimensions.- Nanostructure Formation in Semiconductors and Dielectrics.- Nonlinear Nano-Optics.- Plasmonics, Metamaterials and Nonlinear Optics.- Spectroscopy, Gain Materials and Characterization.

Product details

• Assisted by: Rüdiger Grunwald (Editor), Christop Lienau (Editor), Christoph Lienau (Editor), Shuji Sakabe (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9783319122168
• ISBN: 978-3-31-912216-8
• No. of pages: 273
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 245 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 555 g
• Illustrations: XXI, 273 p. 137 illus., 44 illus. in color.
• Series: Nano-Optics and Nanophotonics; Nano-Optics and Nanophotonics
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Electricity, magnetism, optics