Version : September 2017 CONTENTS : - Introduction - Derivation of Maxwell’s equations: Constitutive relations - Linear wave equation - Nonlinear susceptibilities - Nonlinear wave equations

Symmetry properties of the nonlinear susceptibility tensor

Light propagation in anisotropic materials

- Nonlinear propagation of a plane wave in a ISOTROPIC medium - Nonlinear propagation of a wave-packet : transverse effects