Lasers and Electro-optics: Fundamentals and Engineering
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 3/20/2014
EAN 9780521860291, ISBN10: 0521860296
Hardcover, 882 pages, 25.3 x 19.3 x 4.2 cm
Language: English
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.
1. Electromagnetic waves, light, and lasers
2. Optical frequency amplifiers
3. 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 inhomogenous media
15. Optics of Gaussian beams
16. Optical fibers and waveguides
17. 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
Index.