Nanostructured Nonlinear Optical Materials

Nanostructured Nonlinear Optical Materials covers the analysis of the formation, characterization, and optical nonlinearities of various nanostructures using different methods. It addresses three main areas of research in the field. The first group is related to the modification of the surfaces of materials for the formation of various nanostructures.

Such studies include the formation of extended using a few-cycle pulses, the analysis of the nanoripples produced on the semiconductors possessing different bandgaps, and the formation of nanopores, nanoholes, and nanowires using different conditions of laser-matter interaction. The second group comprises of the transmission electron microscopy and time-of-flight mass spectroscopy studies of ablated bulk and nanoparticle targets, the low-order nonlinearities of metal and semiconductor nanoparticles, and the nonlinear refraction and nonlinear absorption of carbon-contained nanoparticles.

Finally, the third group of studies is related with low- and high-order harmonic generation in nanoparticle-contained plasmas, the role of small clusters in the harmonic enhancement using ablation of nanoparticles and bulk targets, the comparative studies of high-order harmonic generation in the plasmas produced during ablation of bulk and nanoparticle materials of the same origin, and the correlation between efficient harmonic generation and TEM/ToFMS of the plasmas containing nanoparticles.

These topics make up the bulk of the active research going on in nonlinear optics and nanomaterials and thus the book is an essential reference for all nanomaterials researchers in the fields of photonics, materials, physics, chemistry and nanotechnology.