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Lasers

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This is universally regarded as the ultimate reference for lasers. After discovering it in grad school, I understand why! Siegman's explanations are truly phenomenal and "Lasers" treats virtually every topic on lasers. Plus, he has comprehensive errata on his website!

I used LASERS for both of Siegman's courses at Stanford, and even now it has become well worn with use in our lasers laboratory. Both the fundamental physics and contemporary technology are rigorously covered in their essential entirety, in a well written and lucid survey of the field. Indeed, care had obviously been taken to develop the entire text into a coherent treatise starting from first principles, and the pedagogical treatment of the subject still makes the book nothing short of a joy to read. Five stars as a textbook; five as a working reference.

Unlike many optics-oriented books, the math in this book will be more familiar to engineers. Most others are written from a Physicist's perspective. An excellent reference for general optics, as well as lasers. More rigorous than many other titles.

The greatest reference! If you are looking for quick answers and canned solutions - this is not book for you. Alost all there is to know about lasers.

Perhaps the most complete and in-depth book on lasers out there with great narrative and not just a bunch of equations thrown at you.

This book provides the very good and thorough overview of the modern as well as classical laser physics. I recommend this book for a serious laser scientist and engineer. Starting from the black-body radiation to the quantum-well semiconductor lasers, it touches upon various aspects, including mathematical models, governing equations.

This remarkable text is a wonderful introduction to the world of lasers, especially good for undergraduate courses, particularly for engineers.

The basic principles and practice are explained with extraordinary clarity, and without any significant mention of quantum mechanics. The main weakness of the book is the lack of information on semiconductor laser diodes - so central these days to many branches of laser engineering.

For those wanting a more advanced undergraduate - or physics-based text - an excellent complementary text to Siegman's is Orazio Svelto's 'Principles of Lasers'.

Siegman's book is an excellent engineering text - a terrific introduction for anybody who is new to lasers.

Clear, insightful, and fun to read. If you want to understand lasers, this is your best bet. Siegman also reviews his references, which is great. I actually bought a couple of books as a result of his suggestions. He is an outstanding professor from Stanford. Do I need to say anything else?

Most undergraduate and graduate classes use this book and it is an absolutely amazingly well-written book. I remember as an undergrad. this book was a little confusing but now with more experience in the field of laser and optics I see why this book is so highly regarded. The book hasn't been updated so its missing some more recent topics in lasers but it is still an amazing book. Check out Silfvast and Demtroder for other books that are also well written and offer some expounding on some topics that this book is weak on.

This book contains all the information a student would need to learn about lasers from a classical stand point of view. Unlike most other books fail to explain many aspects of lasers, this book does the job just right.