Nanostructured Nonlinear Optical Materials: Formation and Characterization

Nanostructured Nonlinear Optical Materials: Formation and Fabrication covers the analysis of the formation, characterization and optical nonlinearities of various nanostructures using different methods. It addresses many areas of research in the field, including the modification of the surfaces of materials for the formation of various nanostructures, 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, the nonlinear refraction and nonlinear absorption of carbon-contained nanoparticles, and low- and high-order harmonic generation in nanoparticle-contained plasmas, amongst other topics.

The book is an essential reference for all nanomaterials researchers in the fields of photonics, materials, physics, chemistry and nanotechnology.

Present complete coverage of the formation, characterization and optical nonlinearities of nanostructuresBuilds on basic theory, showing the strengths of the application of nanostructures in optical materialsWritten by a leading expert in the subject

1. Extended nanoripples formation using a few-cycle pulses
2. Analysis of nanoripples produced on the semiconductors possessing different bandgaps
3. Formation of nanopores, nanoholes, and nanowires using different conditions of laser-matter interaction
4. Transmission electron microscopy and time-of-flight mass spectroscopy of ablated bulk and nanoparticle targets
5. Low-order nonlinearities of metal and semiconductor nanoparticles
6. Carbon-contained nanoparticles: nonlinear refraction and nonlinear absorption
7. Low- and high-order harmonic generation in nanoparticle-contained plasmas
8. Role of small clusters in harmonic enhancement using ablation of nanoparticles and bulk targets
9. Comparative studies of high-order harmonic generation in the plasmas produced during ablation of bulk and nanoparticle materials of the same origin
10. Correlation between efficient harmonic generation and TEM/ToFMS of the plasmas containing nanoparticles