Download or read book Encounters In Nonlinear Optics - Selected Papers Of Nicolaas Bloembergen (With Commentary) written by Nicolaas Bloembergen and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1996-09-14 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of papers in the field of nonlinear optics contains reprints of original research, and general reviews written since 1960 up to the present. Brief comments by the author place each paper in a historical context of the evolution of nonlinear optics. Papers are selected from a more comprehensive bibliography either on the basis of their influence on subsequent developments or because they were originally published in journals or conference proceedings which are less easily accessible.