Download or read book Encounters in Nonlinear Optics written by N. Bloembergen and published by World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1996 with total page 622 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.