Ebook: Lasers: Fundamentals and Applications
- Tags: Laser Technology Photonics, Microwaves RF and Optical Engineering, Optics Optoelectronics Plasmonics and Optical Devices
- Series: Graduate Texts in Physics
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Springer US
- Edition: 2
- Language: English
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Lasers: Fundamentals and Applications, serves as a vital textbook to accompany undergraduate and graduate courses on lasers and their applications. Ever since their invention in 1960, lasers have assumed tremendous importance in the fields of science, engineering and technology because of their diverse uses in basic research and countless technological applications. This book provides a coherent presentation of the basic physics behind the way lasers work, and presents some of their most important applications in vivid detail.
After reading this book, students will understand how to apply the concepts found within to practical, tangible situations. This textbook includes worked-out examples and exercises to enhance understanding, and the preface shows lecturers how to most beneficially match the textbook with their course curricula. The book includes several recent Nobel Lectures, which will further expose students to the emerging applications and excitement of working with lasers.
Students who study lasers, laser applications, and optics and lasers will find this book to be an invaluable contribution to their understanding of the subject.
Topics included and discussed in detail include:
laser rate equations
semiclassical theory of lasers
optical resonators
properties of laser beams
fiber lasers
semiconductor lasers
applications of lsers to science and industry
laser induced fusion
Lasers: Fundamentals and Applications, serves as a vital textbook to accompany undergraduate and graduate courses on lasers and their applications. Ever since their invention in 1960, lasers have assumed tremendous importance in the fields of science, engineering and technology because of their diverse uses in basic research and countless technological applications. This book provides a coherent presentation of the basic physics behind the way lasers work, and presents some of their most important applications in vivid detail.
After reading this book, students will understand how to apply the concepts found within to practical, tangible situations. This textbook includes worked-out examples and exercises to enhance understanding, and the preface shows lecturers how to most beneficially match the textbook with their course curricula. The book includes several recent Nobel Lectures, which will further expose students to the emerging applications and excitement of working with lasers.
Students who study lasers, laser applications, and optics and lasers will find this book to be an invaluable contribution to their understanding of the subject.
Topics included and discussed in detail include:
laser rate equations
semiclassical theory of lasers
optical resonators
properties of laser beams
fiber lasers
semiconductor lasers
applications of lsers to science and industry
laser induced fusion
Lasers: Fundamentals and Applications, serves as a vital textbook to accompany undergraduate and graduate courses on lasers and their applications. Ever since their invention in 1960, lasers have assumed tremendous importance in the fields of science, engineering and technology because of their diverse uses in basic research and countless technological applications. This book provides a coherent presentation of the basic physics behind the way lasers work, and presents some of their most important applications in vivid detail.
After reading this book, students will understand how to apply the concepts found within to practical, tangible situations. This textbook includes worked-out examples and exercises to enhance understanding, and the preface shows lecturers how to most beneficially match the textbook with their course curricula. The book includes several recent Nobel Lectures, which will further expose students to the emerging applications and excitement of working with lasers.
Students who study lasers, laser applications, and optics and lasers will find this book to be an invaluable contribution to their understanding of the subject.
Topics included and discussed in detail include:
laser rate equations
semiclassical theory of lasers
optical resonators
properties of laser beams
fiber lasers
semiconductor lasers
applications of lsers to science and industry
laser induced fusion
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-8
Basic Optics....Pages 9-32
Elements of Quantum Mechanics....Pages 33-61
Einstein Coefficients and Light Amplification....Pages 63-96
Laser Rate Equations....Pages 97-120
Semiclassical Theory of the Laser....Pages 121-141
Optical Resonators....Pages 143-200
Vector Spaces and Linear Operators: Dirac Notation....Pages 201-223
Quantum Theory of Interaction of Radiation Field with Matter....Pages 225-261
Properties of Lasers....Pages 263-275
Some Laser Systems....Pages 277-289
Doped Fiber Amplifiers and Lasers....Pages 291-321
Semiconductor Lasers....Pages 323-362
Optical Parametric Oscillators....Pages 363-385
Front Matter....Pages 387-387
Spatial Frequency Filtering and Holography....Pages 389-402
Laser-Induced Fusion....Pages 403-415
Light Wave Communications....Pages 417-443
Lasers in Science....Pages 445-470
Lasers in Industry....Pages 471-507
Back Matter....Pages 509-650
Lasers: Fundamentals and Applications, serves as a vital textbook to accompany undergraduate and graduate courses on lasers and their applications. Ever since their invention in 1960, lasers have assumed tremendous importance in the fields of science, engineering and technology because of their diverse uses in basic research and countless technological applications. This book provides a coherent presentation of the basic physics behind the way lasers work, and presents some of their most important applications in vivid detail.
After reading this book, students will understand how to apply the concepts found within to practical, tangible situations. This textbook includes worked-out examples and exercises to enhance understanding, and the preface shows lecturers how to most beneficially match the textbook with their course curricula. The book includes several recent Nobel Lectures, which will further expose students to the emerging applications and excitement of working with lasers.
Students who study lasers, laser applications, and optics and lasers will find this book to be an invaluable contribution to their understanding of the subject.
Topics included and discussed in detail include:
laser rate equations
semiclassical theory of lasers
optical resonators
properties of laser beams
fiber lasers
semiconductor lasers
applications of lsers to science and industry
laser induced fusion
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-8
Basic Optics....Pages 9-32
Elements of Quantum Mechanics....Pages 33-61
Einstein Coefficients and Light Amplification....Pages 63-96
Laser Rate Equations....Pages 97-120
Semiclassical Theory of the Laser....Pages 121-141
Optical Resonators....Pages 143-200
Vector Spaces and Linear Operators: Dirac Notation....Pages 201-223
Quantum Theory of Interaction of Radiation Field with Matter....Pages 225-261
Properties of Lasers....Pages 263-275
Some Laser Systems....Pages 277-289
Doped Fiber Amplifiers and Lasers....Pages 291-321
Semiconductor Lasers....Pages 323-362
Optical Parametric Oscillators....Pages 363-385
Front Matter....Pages 387-387
Spatial Frequency Filtering and Holography....Pages 389-402
Laser-Induced Fusion....Pages 403-415
Light Wave Communications....Pages 417-443
Lasers in Science....Pages 445-470
Lasers in Industry....Pages 471-507
Back Matter....Pages 509-650
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