chapter 1 Optical Propagation in Linear Media -- chapter 2 The Origin and Modeling of Optical Nonlinearity -- chapter 3 Second Harmonic Generation -- chapter 4 Self-Refraction of Optical Beams -- chapter 5 Optical Bistability -- chapter 6 Optical Phase Conjugation -- chapter 7 Stimulated Brillouin and Raman Scattering -- chapter 8 Solitons in Optical Fibers -- chapter 9 Photorefractive Nonlinear Optics -- chapter 10 Nonlinear Optical Properties of Nematic Liquid Crystals -- chapter 11 Self-Organization in Nonlinear Optical Systems -- chapter 12 Nonlinear Optics of Photonic Bandgap Structures.