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This new Fourth Edition of Principles of Lasers
is so thoroughly updated and expanded that it is virtually a whole
new book. But the text's essential mission remains the same: to
provide a wide-ranging yet unified description of laser behavior,
physics, technology, and current applications. Dr. Svelto emphasizes
the physical rather than the mathematical aspects of lasers, and
presents the subject in the simplest terms compatible with a correct
physical understanding.
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- List of Examples
- Introductory Concepts
- Interaction of Radiation with Atoms and Ions
- Energy Levels, Radiative, and Nonradiative Transitions in Molecules
and Semiconductors
- Ray and Wave Propagation through Optical Media
- Passive Optical Resonators
- Pumping Processes
- Continuous Wave Laser Behavior
- Transient Laser Behavior
- Solid-State, Dye, and Semiconductor Lasers
- Gas, Chemical, Free-Electon, and X-Ray Lasers
- Properties of Laser Beams
- Laser Beam Transformation: Propagation, Amplification, Frequency
Conversion, Pulse Compression, and Pulse Expansion
- Appendixes
- A. Semiclassical Treatment of the Interaction of Radiation and
Matter
- B. Lineshape Calculation for Collision Broadening
- C. Simplified Treatment of Amplified Spontaneous Emission
- D. Calculation of the Radiative Transition Rates of Molecular
Transitions
- E. Space-Dependent Rate Equations
- F. Mode-Locking Theory: Homogeneous Line
- G. Propagation of a Laser Pulse through a Dispersive Medium
or a Gain Medium
- H. Higher-Order Coherence
- I. Physical Constants and Useful Conversion Factors
- Answers to Selected Problems
- Index
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