Recent studies on twisted-light-matter interactions have highlighted the importance of the longitudinal electric field component, which had previously been overlooked. Together with the transverse…
It is well established that the longitudinal component of paraxial optical vortices has a key role in specific atomic quadrupole transitions near the beam axis when the spin and orbital angular…
The Lagrangian & Hamiltonian of the classical EM field. Canonical Quantizaation of the EM field. Gauge invariance. The Coulomb and the Lorentz gauge. The minimal coupling Hamiltonian in the…
Semiclassical Theory of Light-Matter interaction: absorption, stimulated emission. Fermi's golden rule. The transition rate between bound atomic states (absorption, stimulated emission).…
Nonlinear polarization & nonlinear susceptibility. A classical model of the nonlinear susceptibility. Second-order nonlinear effects: (a) Second Harmonic Generation, (b) Sum-Frequency…