Lasers and Synergetics: A Colloquium on Coherence and Self-organization in Nature
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Main Author: Graham, Robert (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1987
Series:Springer Proceedings in Physics 19
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Online Access:Volltext
Item 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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (X, 272 p)
ISBN:9783642727580
9783642727603
ISSN:0930-8989
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-72758-0

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