Nicolaas Bloembergen, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics (1981), wrote Nonlinear Optics in 1964, when the field of nonlinear optics was only three years old. The available literature has since grown by at least three orders of magnitude.

The vitality of Nonlinear Optics is evident from the still-growing number of scientists and engineers engaged in the study of new nonlinear phenomena and in the development of new nonlinear devices in the field of opto-electronics. This monograph should be helpful in providing a historical introduction and a general background of basic ideas both for...

This text presents a selection of papers on nuclear magnetic resonance, electron paramagnetic and ferromagnetic resonance, written mostly during the first two decades (1945-1965) of the development of these scientific fields of endeavour.

This selection of papers in the field of nonlinear optics contains research, lecture notes and general reviews written since 1960. Brief comments by the author place each paper in a historical context of the evolution of nonlinear optics.