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This book contains comprehensive coverage of topics in optical physics and engineering for undergraduate students studying laser physics, optoelectronics, photonics and optical engineering.
List of contents
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.
About the author
Christopher C. Davis is Minta Martin Professor of Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland. He is author of the widely used text Lasers and Electro-Optics (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and co-author of the best-selling text Building Scientific Apparatus (4th edition, Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Summary
Covering a broad range of topics in optical physics and engineering, this textbook is invaluable for undergraduate students studying laser physics, optoelectronics, photonics and optical engineering. This revised second edition covers the basic theory of applied optics and explains the structures and operational characteristics of lasers and related systems.
