Quantum Electronics for Atomic Physics and Telecommunication

List of contents

• 1: Gaussian beams


• 2: Optical resonators - geometrical properties


• 3: Energy relations in optical cavities


• 4: Optical cavity as frequency discriminator


• 5: Laser gain and some of its consequences


• 6: Laser oscillation and pumping mechanisms


• 7: Descriptions of specific CW laser systems


• 8: Laser gain in a semiconductor


• 9: Semiconductor diode lasers


• 10: Guided wave devices and fiber lasers


• 11: Mode-locked lasers and frequency metrology


• 12: Laser frequency stabilization and control systems


• 13: Atomic and molecular discriminants


• 14: Nonlinear optics


• 15: Frequency and amplitude modulation

About the author

Following his PhD, Warren Nagourney undertook postdoctoral research at Columbia Radiation Laboratory, Columbia University, New York, after which he joined the physics department of the University of Washington as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in 1977. He remained with the department until his retirement, as a Research Professor, in 2007.

Summary

This book discusses theoretical and practical aspects for generating and manipulating laser radiation. The second edition includes a new complete chapter on fiber lasers, as well as new coverage of mode locked fiber lasers, comb generation in a micro-resonator, and periodically poled optical waveguides.

Product details

• Authors: Warren Nagourney, Warren (University of Washington Nagourney, Nagourney Warren
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.05.2014
• EAN: 9780199665488
• ISBN: 978-0-19-966548-8
• No. of pages: 496
• Series: Oxford Graduate Texts
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics; SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, SCIENCE / Physics / Atomic & Molecular, SCIENCE / Physics / Electricity, SCIENCE / Physics / Magnetism, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Electronics / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Telecommunications, SCIENCE / Physics / Electromagnetism, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory), Electricity, electromagnetism & magnetism, Atomic & molecular physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Electronics & Communications Engineering, Electricity, electromagnetism and magnetism, Electronics and communications engineering