Optical Properties of Highly Transparent Solids

Section I Multiphonon Absorption.- Theory of Multiphonon Absorption: A Review.- Multiphonon Absorption for Various Forms of the Anharmonic Potential.- Cumulant Methods in the Theory of Multiphonon Absorption.- The High Frequency Tail of the Lattice Absorption Spectra of Simple Crystals.- Optical Absorption by Alkali Halides: Possible Structure in the Multiphonon Region.- Experimental Studies of Multiphonon IR Absorption.- Temperature Dependence of Multiphonon Absorption in Fluorite Crystals.- Multiphonon Absorption in the Alkaline Earth Fluorides.- Multiphonon Absorption in KC?, NAC? and ZnSe.- Two-Phonon Absorption Spectra of III-V Compound Semiconductors.- Section II Electronic Processes.- Urbach's Rule.- Magnetic Circular Dichroism of the Urbach Edge in KI, CdTe and T?C?.- Theory of New Transients and Optical Phenomena in Spatially Dispersive Media.- Dispersion of the Elasto-Optic Constants of Potassium Halides.- Optical Transmission in Iodine Transported ?-HgS.- Section III Impurity Effects.- Impurity Induced Absorption in Transparent Crystals.- Raman, Photoconductive and Acoustoelectric Probes of Residual Deep Impurities and Absorption in GaAs.- Identification of Fe4+, Fe5+ and Fe4+-VO Photochromic Absorption Bands in SrTiO3.- Picosecond Spectroscopy of Transient Absorption in Pure KC?.- Section IV Glasses.- Highly Transparent Glasses.- Multiphonon Absorption in the Chalcogenide Glasses As2S3 and GeS2.- Multiphonon Absorption in Chalcogenide Glasses.- Theory of Multiphonon Absorption in the Transparent Regime of Amorphous Solids.- Light Scattering from Composition Fluctuations in the Superspinodal Region of a Phase-Separating Oxide Glass.- Two-Photon and Two-Step Absorption in Glass Optical Waveguide.- Optically Induced Effects in Photoluminescence Studies of Chalcogenide Glasses.- Section V Multiphoton Processes and Nonlinear Effects.- Nonlinear Spectroscopy in Transparent Crystals.- HF and CO2 Laser Measurements of Dispersion of the Nonlinear Susceptibility in Zinc-Blende Crystals.- Multiphoton Ionization Probability and Nonlinear Absorption of Light by Transparent Solids.- Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Excitons in CuC?.- Nonlinear Wave Propagation in a Transparent Medium.- Picosecond Laser-Induced Damage in Transparent Media.- Second-Harmonic Generation of Intense Laser Light in Transparent Centrosymmetric Solids.- Section VI Measurement Techniques.- A Review of Techniques for Measuring Small Optical Losses in Infrared Transmitting Materials.- Improved Laser Calorimetric Techniques.- Measurement of Small Absorption Coefficients from Thermally Induced Shifts at the Fundamental Edge.- An Alternative Way to Determine Absorption Coefficients in Highly Transparent Solids: Theory.- A Calorimetric Technique for the Measurement of Low Optical Absorption Losses in Bulk Glass and Optical Communication Fibres.- Raman Scattering Technique to Evaluate Losses in GaAs Dielectric Waveguides.- Accurate Spectrophotometer for the Attenuation Measurement of Low-Loss Optical Materials.- Surface Studies with Acoustic Probe Techniques.- A 10.6 Micron Modulated Light Ellipsometer.- Measurements of Stress-Optic Coefficients in the Transparent Regime of Solids.- Measuring Photoelastic and Elastic Constants of Transparent Materials by Application of Static Stress.- List of Contributors.