Optics, light and lasers : the practical approach to modern aspects of photonics and laser physics
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Optics, light and lasers : the practical approach to modern aspects of photonics and laser physics
（Physics textbook）
Wiley-VCH, c2004
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Optik, Licht und Laser
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-402) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
From the concepts of classical optics, the author summaries the properties of modern laser sources in detail. Several examples from the scope of current research are provided to emphazise the relevance of optics in current developments within science and technology. The text has been written for newcomers to the topic and benefits from the author's ability to explain difficult sequences and effects in a straightforward and readily comprehensible way.
Table of Contents
Preface. 1 Light rays. 1.1 Light rays in human experience. 1.2 Ray optics. 1.3 Reflection. 1.4 Refraction. 1.5 Fermat's principle: the optical path length. 1.6 Prisms. 1.7 Light rays in wave guides. 1.8 Lenses and curved mirrors. 1.9 Matrix optics. 1.10 Ray optics and particle optics. 2 Wave optics. 2.1 Electromagnetic radiation fields. 2.2 Wave types. 2.3 Gaussian beams. 2.4 Polarization. 2.5 Diffraction. 3 Light propagation in matter. 3.1 Dielectric interfaces. 3.2 Complex refractive index. 3.3 Optical wave guides and fibres. 3.4 Light pulses in dispersive materials. 3.5 Anisotropic optical materials. 3.6 Optical modulators. 4 Optical images. 4.1 The human eye. 4.2 Magnifying glass and eyepiece. 4.3 Microscopes. 4.4 Telescopes. 4.5 Lenses: designs and aberrations. 5 Coherence and interferometry. 5.1 Young's double slit. 5.2 Coherence and correlation. 5.3 The double--slit experiment. 5.4 Michelson interferometer: longitudinal coherence. 5.5 Fabry--Perot interferometer. 5.6 Optical cavities. 5.7 Thin optical films. 5.8 Holography. 5.9 Laser speckle (laser granulation). 6 Light and matter. 6.1 Classical radiation interaction. 6.2 Two--level atoms. 6.3 Stimulated and spontaneous radiation processes. 6.4 Inversion and optical gain. 7 The laser. 7.1 The classic system: the He--Ne laser. 7.2 Mode selection in the He--Ne laser. 7.3 Spectral properties of the He--Ne laser. 7.4 Applications of the He--Ne laser. 7.5 Other gas lasers. 7.6 Molecular gas lasers. 7.7 The workhorses: solid--state lasers. 7.8 Selected solid--state lasers. 7.9 Tunable lasers with vibronic states. 8 Laser dynamics. 8.1 Basic laser theory. 8.2 Laser rate equations. 8.3 Threshold--less lasers and microlasers. 8.4 Laser noise. 8.5 Pulsed lasers. 9 Semiconductor lasers. 9.1 Semiconductors. 9.2 Optical properties of semiconductors. 9.3 The hetero structure laser. 9.4 Dynamic properties of semiconductor lasers. 9.5 Laser diodes, diode lasers, laser systems. 9.6 High--power laser diodes. 10 Sensors for light. 10.1 Characteristics of optical detectors. 10.2 Fluctuating opto--electronic quantities. 10.3 Photon noise and detectivity limits. 10.4 Thermal detectors. 10.5 Quantum sensors I: photomultiplier tubes. 10.6 Quantum sensors II: semiconductor sensors. 10.7 Position and image sensors. 11 Laser spectroscopy. 11.1 Laser--induced fluorescence (LIF). 11.2 Absorption and dispersion. 11.3 The width of spectral lines. 11.4 Doppler--free spectroscopy. 11.5 Transient phenomena. 11.6 Light forces. 12 Nonlinear optics I: Optical mixing processes. 12.1 Charged anharmonic oscillators. 12.2 Second--order nonlinear susceptibility. 12.3 Wave propagation in nonlinear media. 12.4 Frequency doubling. 12.5 Sum and difference frequency. 13 Nonlinear optics II: Four--wave mixing. 13.1 Frequency tripling in gases. 13.2 Nonlinear refraction coefficient (optical Kerr effect). 13.3 Self--phase--modulation. Appendix. A Mathematics for optics. A.1 Spectral analysis of fluctuating measurable quantities. A.2 Poynting theorem. B Supplements in quantum mechanics. B.1 Temporal evolution of a two--state system. B.2 Density--matrix formalism. B.3 Density of states. Bibliography. Index.
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