Advances in laser and optics research. Volume 3 / William T. Arkin, editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ADVANCES IN LASERAND OPTICS RESEARCH, VOLUME 3 -- ADVANCES IN LASERAND OPTICS RESEARCH, VOLUME 3 -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ADVANCES IN COPPER LASER TECHNOLOGY:KINETIC ENHANCEMENT -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1. Role of Pre-Pulse Electron Density -- 2.2. Engineering the Pre-Pulse Electron Density -- 3. Operating Characteristics of KE-CVLs -- 3.1. Output Power and Efficiency -- 3.2. Pulse Rate Scaling of KE-CVLS -- 3.3. Specific Average-Output Power Scaling -- 3.4. Temporal Characteristics of KE-CVL Output

3.5. Spatial Characteristics of KE-CVL Output3.6. High Beam Quality Operation of KE-CVLs -- 4. Diagnostics of Kinetically Enhanced CVLs -- 4.1. Copper Density Measurement -- 4.2. Computer Modelling of KE-CVLs -- 5. Operation of KE-CVLS in Oscillator-Amplifier Configuration -- 6. High Power UV Generation from KE-CVLs -- Acknowledgments -- References -- MERGING QUANTUM THEORY INTO CLASSICALPHYSICS -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Comparison of Classical and Quantum Electrodynamics -- 2.1. Modes of the ElectromagneticWaves

""2.2. Elementary Light-Matter Interaction in Classical Optics""""2.3. The Classical Zero Point Field""; ""2.4. The Zero Point Field and the Detection of Low Level Light""; ""2.5. Spontaneous Emission and Absorption: Einstein�s Coefficients""; ""2.6. Mechanism of Emission and Absorption of a Photon""; ""2.7. Comparison of Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics""; ""3. Some Properties of Nonlinear Waves: The (3+0)D Solitons""; ""3.1. The Filaments of Light""; ""3.2. Perturbation of a Filament by a Magnetic Nonlinearity""

4. Tentative Setting of a Classical Theory Including the ImportantQuantum Results4.1. Is Matter Made of Electromagnetic (3+0)D Solitons? -- 4.2. Inserting the Quantum Calculation of Energies into the Classical Theory -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- A POSSIBLE SCENARIO FOR VOLUMETRICDISPLAY THROUGH NANOPARTICLE SUSPENSIONS -- Abstract -- References -- STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF NONLINEARPHASE NOISE -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Joint Statistics of Nonlinear Phase Noise and Electric Field -- 2.1. Normalization of Nonlinear Phase Noise

2.2. Series Expansion2.3. Joint Characteristic Function -- 3. The Probability Density Function of Nonlinear Phase Noise -- 4. Some Joint Characteristic Functions -- 4.1. Joint Characteristic Function of Nonlinear Phase Noise and ReceivedIntensity -- 4.2. Joint Characteristic Function of Nonlinear Phase Noise and Phase of Amplifier Noise -- 5. Error Probability of DPSK Signal -- 5.1. Phase Distribution -- 5.2. Error Probability -- 5.3. Approximation of Independence -- 5.4. Numerical Results -- 6. Compensation of Nonlinear Phase Noise -- 6.1. Linear Compensation

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