Overview
- Comprehensive textbook dealing with all kinds of lasers and related topics
- Uniquely integrates the principles to generate laser beam in gaseous, solid and semiconductor lasers materials
- Provides a basic introduction to the principles and the realization of lasers
- Includes problems and solutions and over 400 illustrations
- Students benefit from the problems and solutions for learning with this textbook
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Graduate Texts in Physics (GTP)
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Table of contents (35 chapters)
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Front Matter
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General Description of a Laser and an Example
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Front Matter
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Theoretical Basis of the Laser
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Front Matter
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Operation of a Laser
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Types of Lasers (Except Semiconductor Lasers)
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About this book
Basics of Laser Physics provides an introductory presentation of the field of all types of lasers. It contains a general description of the laser, a theoretical treatment and a characterization of its operation as it deals with gas, solid state, free-electron and semiconductor lasers and, furthermore, with a few laser related topics. The different subjects are connected to each other by the central principle of the laser, namely, that it is a self-oscillating system. Special emphasis is put on a uniform treatment of gas and solid-state lasers, on the one hand, and semiconductor lasers, on the other hand. The discussions and the treatment of equations are presented in a way that a reader can immediately follow. The book addresses undergraduate and graduate students of science and engineering. Not only should it enable instructors to prepare their lectures, but it can be helpful to students for preparing for an examination.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Basics of Laser Physics
Book Subtitle: For Students of Science and Engineering
Authors: Karl F. Renk
Series Title: Graduate Texts in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23565-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-23564-1Published: 10 February 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-23565-8Published: 09 February 2012
Series ISSN: 1868-4513
Series E-ISSN: 1868-4521
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 622
Topics: Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Classical Electrodynamics, Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes, Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering