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About this book
Covering a broad range of topics in modern optical physics and engineering, this textbook is invaluable for undergraduate students studying laser physics, optoelectronics, photonics, applied optics and optical engineering. This new edition has been re-organized, and now covers many new topics such as the optics of stratified media, quantum well lasers and modulators, free electron lasers, diode-pumped solid state and gas lasers, imaging and non-imaging optical systems, squeezed light, periodic poling in nonlinear media, very short pulse lasers and new applications of lasers. The textbook gives a detailed introduction to the basic physics and engineering of lasers, as well as covering the design and operational principles of a wide range of optical systems and electro-optic devices. It features full details of important derivations and results, and provides many practical examples of the design, construction and performance characteristics of different types of lasers and electro-optic devices.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Imprints
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- 1 Electromagnetic waves, light, and lasers
- 2 Optical frequency amplifiers
- 3 An introduction to two practical laser systems
- 4 Optical resonators containing amplifying media
- 5 Laser radiation
- 6 Control of laser oscillators
- 7 Optically pumped solid-state lasers
- 8 Gas lasers
- 9 Molecular gas lasers I
- 10 Molecular gas lasers II
- 11 Tunable lasers
- 12 Semiconductor lasers
- 13 Passive optical systems
- 14 Periodic optical systems, resonators, and inhomogeneous media
- 15 The optics of Gaussian beams
- 16 Optical fibers and waveguides
- 17 The optics of anisotropic media
- 18 The electro-optic and acousto-optic effects and modulation of light beams
- 19 Introduction to nonlinear processes
- 20 Wave propagation in nonlinear media
- 21 Detection of optical radiation
- 22 Coherence theory
- 23 Laser applications
- Appendix 1 Optical terminology
- Appendix 2 The -function
- Appendix 3 Black-body radiation formulas
- Appendix 4 RLC circuits
- Appendix 5 Storage and transport of energy by electromagnetic fields
- Appendix 6 The reflection and refraction of a plane electromagnetic wave at a boundary
- Appendix 7 The vector differential equation for light rays
- Appendix 8 Symmetry properties of crystals and the 32 crystal classes
- Appendix 9 Tensors
- Appendix 10 Bessel-function relations
- Appendix 11 Green's functions
- Appendix 12 Recommended values of some physical constants
- Index