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Presents a clear systematic molecular-based description of nonlinear optical polarization analysis of chemical and biological assemblies.
List of contents
1. Introduction; 2. The molecular nonlinear polarizability; 3. Visualization of the molecular tensor; 4. NLO properties of coupled oscillators and crystals; 5. Second order nonlinear optical properties of proteins; 6. Surface SHG and SFG; 7. Chirality in nonlinear optics; 8. Nonlinear optical ellipsometry; 9. Bridging the local to laboratory frames in SHG and SFG microscopy; 10. Polarization-dependent CARS/SRS microscopy; 11. Hyper-Rayleigh scattering; 12. Polarization-dependent single and multi-photon excited fluorescence of isotropic assemblies; 13. 1PEF and 2PEF from uniaxial interfaces; 14. 1PEF and 2PEF microscopy; 15. Mueller tensors.
About the author
Garth J. Simpson is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Purdue University. He has co-authored more than 90 articles and given over 100 invited lectures on nonlinear optics and related phenomena. He is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Research Innovation Award from the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies, the Findeis and Victor K. LaMer Awards from the American Chemical Society, a Cottrell Teacher-Scholar Award from the Research Corporation, and a Beckman Young Investigator Award. He is a member of the editorial advisory board for Analytical Chemistry and a scientific advisory board member for the instrumentation company Formulatrix.
Summary
The first book on nonlinear optics specifically for biological, chemical and materials research communities. This thorough yet accessible guide presents a systematic molecular-based description of nonlinear optical polarization analysis of chemical and biological assemblies, covering common measurements and providing a rigorous mathematical framework for their interpretation.
