The Book is addressed to the advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in lasers. It encompasses the wide area joining laser physics and non-linear optics. The earlier chapters give a concise account of basic physics on which the operation of lasers depends. Quantum mechanical treatment of the interaction of radiation with an atom and of some important optical processes is presented. This prepares the way, by easy stages, for the formal development of lasers.
The advances in laser physics over the last twenty-five years are described. The material in non-linear optics scattered in various journals is collected in a compact and unified manner. Some research problems of current interest are discussed. The treatment is kept as simple as possible so that a graduate student should not have any difficulty with it. The book should help the reader to acquire new concepts and advanced methods in non-linear optics and give him a sort of overall perspective necessary to continue further independent research. The book should be useful to a variety of readers.
Author(s): B.B. Laud
Edition: 3
Publisher: New Age International (P) Ltd., Publishers
Year: 2011
Language: English
Commentary: Missing Pages- 108, 109, 110
Pages: 301
Cover
Title
Copyright
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Einstein's Quantum Theory of Radiation
3. Interaction of Radiation with Matter
4. Masers
5. Theory of Some Simple Optical Processes
6. Basic Principles of Lasers
7. Solid State Lasers
8. Gas Lasers
9. Semiconductor Lasers
10. Liquid-, Dye- and Chemical Lasers
11. Dynamics of the Laser Processes and Advances in Laser Physics
12. Holography
13. Non-linear Optics
14. Multiphoton Processes
15. Laser Spectroscopy
16. Some Laser Induced Phenomena
17. Applications of Lasers
Appendix A: Physical Constants
Appendix B: Conversion Factors for Energy Units
References
Index
