On Plasmonic Superradiance, the Scaling Laws of Spontaneous Parametric Downconversion, and the Principles and Recent Advances in Nonlinear Optics

This thesis covers three different topics. The first part is a pedagogical review of the basic principles and recent advances in nonlinear optics. It was originally written as a chapter for the proceedings of the “International School of Physics (Enrico Fermi)” summer school on Photonics held in Jun...

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Main Author: Choudhary, Saumya
Other Authors: Boyd, Robert
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35132
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-5511