Nonlinear Optics

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Nonlinear optical effects in medium
  Introductory
The Faraday effect - a large paper online.
Optical activity of chiral molecules.
  Advanced topics
Optical phase conjugation and Four-wave mixing - online PhD thesis.
An Investigation into the Kerr Electro-Optic Effect - short online report; theory and experiment.
An Introduction to Optical Activity - online tutorial.

Light in optically active medium
  Introductory
Subluminal - an applet illustrating seemingly superluminal behavior.
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  Advanced topics
Light speed reduction to 17 metres per second in an ultracold atomic gas - a paper from Nature.
Slow light (physics/0007097), 3pp. and Negative group velocity (physics/0008013), 16pp. - analysis of phenomena in optically active media from classical poiint of view.
Bessel beams (physics/0006046), 8pp. - bessel beams and superluminal group velocity.
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