Lasers and Synergetics
Subtitle: A Colloquium on Coherence and Self-organization in Nature
By: edited by Robert Graham, Arne Wunderlin
Contributors: Wunderlin, Arne
Series: Springer Proceedings in Physics -- 19; Springer proceedings in physics -- 19.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9783642727603; 9783642727580
Subjects: Physics
Other titles: Extended Versions of the Contributions to a Symposium in Honour of the 60th Birthday of Hermann Haken
Description: Lasers and Synergetics, written to honour Hermann Haken on his 60th birthday, is concerned with the two main areas of research to which Prof. Haken has made fundamental contributions. In fact, the two areas are interrelated since the development of the interdisciplinary science synergetics has been closely connected with the emergence of laser theory. Synergetics deals with complex systems that possess the fundamental property of spontaneous selforganization of their macroscopic behaviour. The book summarizes basic ideas, important concepts and principles used to describe selforganizing systems from a unified viewpoint. Special attention is paid to lasers, nonlinear optics and to coherence phenomena in other physical, biological and sociological systems. Some surveys of historical developments are presented, but most space is devoted to the publication of recent results and the description of current research work.
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Table of contents: title: Contents: Introduction; title: Instabilities in Lasers; title: Fluctuations in Quantum Optics; title: After-Dinner Speech; title: Methods of Synergetics; title: Coherence and Structure in Physical Systems; title: Selforganization in Biological Systems; title: Hermann Haken's Publications; title: Index of Contributors.