Overview
- The new edition features fully rewritten chapters on: Laser Rate Equations; Properties of Laser Beams and Types of Lasers and all-new problem sets have been added to enhance learning
- Lasers are introduced from first principles through recent developments and emerging applications
- The book concludes with Nobel lectures, which will expose the reader to the excitement of working with lasers
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Graduate Texts in Physics (GTP)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Fundamentals of Lasers
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Front Matter
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Some Important Applications of Lasers
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Keywords
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
K. Thyagarajan has been working in the general area of Photonics and in particular in Fiber 2 Optics since 1973 and has published more than 125 research papers in international journals and coauthored seven books with Professor Ajoy Ghatak. He has been teaching courses related to Lasers, Fiber Optics, Quantum Electronics, Optical Electronics, Electromagnetics since the past thirty years. Thyagarajan was elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America in 2005, was honored in 2003 with the title “Officier dans l’ordre des Palmes Academiques” by the French Government and was awarded the "Fiber Optic Person of the Year 1997” award (jointly) by Lucent Technologies- Finolex and Voice and Data. He was a consultant to Tejas Networks India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore and has held visiting positions in Thomson-CSF, France and University of Florida, Gainesville, USA.
Ajoy Ghatak has recently retired as Professor of Physics from IIT Delhi. He obtained his MSc from Delhi University and PhD fromCornell University. His research areas are Fiber Optics and Quantum Mechanics. He has several books in these areas and some of them have been translated into foreign languages. The first edition of OPTICS has been translated into Chinese and Persian. Professor Ghatak is a recipient of several awards including the 2008 SPIE Educator Award in recognition of his unparalleled global contributions to the field of fiber optics research, and his tireless dedication to optics education worldwide and throughout the developing world in particular. He has also received the 2003 Optical Society of America Esther Hoffman Beller award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to optical science and engineering education. Furthermore, he is a recipient of the 1979 CSIR S S Bhatnagar award, the 1990 UGC Meghnad Saha award, the 2003 International Commission for Optics Galileo Galilei award and the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Optical Society of India.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lasers
Book Subtitle: Fundamentals and Applications
Authors: K. Thyagarajan, Ajoy Ghatak
Series Title: Graduate Texts in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6442-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-6441-0Published: 05 October 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2694-3Published: 14 December 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-6442-7Published: 27 September 2010
Series ISSN: 1868-4513
Series E-ISSN: 1868-4521
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXII, 650
Topics: Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering