Category:Nonlinear optics

The field of optics which describes how light interacts with a non-linear medium

A Raman Spectrometer- Image by U.S. Army Rdecom and Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

Subcategories

• Fiber nonlinear optics - light the travels through nonlinear fiber mediums
• Nonlinear optical devices - devices that use light that travels in nonlinear media where dielectric polarization responds nonlinearly to electric field
• Photorefractive effect - the nonlinear optical effect seen in some crystals and other materials that respond to light by altering their refractive index
• Supercontinuum generation - the creation of a supercontinuum through the collection of nonlinear processes that act on a pump beam to cause spectral broadening