Laser Sources and Applications

ISBN-13: 9780750304443 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 492 str.

A. Miller; D. M. Finlayson

Opis

This work presents proceedings from the 47th Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, held at St Andrews during June 1995. It includes coverage of microcavity lasers and QED, solid-state laser materials, fibre lasers and pulsed parametric oscillators.

Spis treści

The Nature of the Nonlinear Optical Susceptibility by R.W. Boyd
Third-Order and Cascaded Nonlinearities by E.W. Van Stryland
Picosecond Optical Pulse Generation Using Semiconductor Lasers by I. White
Microcavity Lasers and QED by G. Björk
Solid-State Laser Materials by G. Huber
Diode-Pumped Solid-State Lasers by T.Y. Fan
Fiber Lasers by D.C. Hanna
Optical Parametric Oscillators: Continuous Wave Operation by M.J. Padgett
Pulsed Parametric Oscillators by M. Ebrahimzadeh
Ultrashort Pulse Sources by W. Sibbett
Applications of Ultrashort Optical Pulses by A. Mysyrowicz
Ultrafast Imaging Techniques by J.F. Reintjes
Fiber Nonlinearities by P.V. Mamyshev
Electromagnetically Induced Transparency by M.H. Dunn
Cooling and Trapping Neutral Atoms with Laser Light by A. Hemmerich
Presentations by Participants
Participants' Addresses
Index

O autorze

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