This comprehensive book provides a detailed introduction to the basic physics and engineering aspects of lasers, as well as to the design and operational principles of a wide range of optical systems and electro-optic devices. Throughout, the author gives full details of important derivations and results, as well as many practical examples of the design, construction, and performance characteristics of different types of lasers and electro-optic devices. Covering a broad range of topics in modern optical physics and engineering, this book will be invaluable to those taking undergraduate courses in laser physics, optoelectronics, photonics, and optical engineering. It will also act as a useful reference for graduate students and researchers in these fields.
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"...this book can be warmly recommended." Miles Padgett, Nature
"...a comprehensive undergraduate text that provides a broad but detailed introduction to the basic underpinnings of lasers and modern optical systems." Physics Today
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Full details of important derivations and results are included throughout this detailed introduction to the basic physics and engineering aspects of lasers, as well as to the design and operational principles of a wide range of optical systems and electro-optic devices.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent introduction to laser physics & engineering,
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This review is from: Lasers and Electro-optics: Fundamentals and Engineering (Paperback)
This book is intended for first-year graduate and senior-level undergraduate students in physics and electrical engineering. It is clearly written with a good balance between depth and breadth, and will serve well either as a text or a reference. The first half covers laser fundamentals while the second half is more application-oriented. The math is at a level appropriate for the intended audience and is mostly fairly straightforward. At over 700 pages this book is a good value for the money.
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Clear, Well-written, Good problems,
By Nelson Tansu (ntansu@students.wisc.edu) (Madison, Wisconsin, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lasers and Electro-optics: Fundamentals and Engineering (Hardcover)
This book is the kind of book that I have been looking for in the subject of laser. The book is very clear and well-written about the material. This book contains not many problems, but the problems in the book are mostly good problems. This book is appropiate for the advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in the electro-optics, photonics areas. The backgrounds necessary for this book are very flexible, since the author explain most of the idea behind the quantum mechanics that he used in the text. But the knowledge of electromagnetics and quantum mechanics would be helpful, not necessary.
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Not the best lasers text out there:,
This review is from: Lasers and Electro-optics: Fundamentals and Engineering (Paperback)
This book is intended for a graduate-level course on lasers. While covering a number of subjects in depth, there are a large number of mistakes. There has been two reprintings with corrections, so I would hate to have seen the first printing. There are many mistakes in the equations (usually easily ferreted out) as well as in the problems. The problems can be very frustrating as they are often as clear as mud. Overall however, the book does do a good job of covering most topics, but if you are looking for a better lasers book, I would go with Verdeyen's Laser Electronics (ISBN:013706666X) or Siegman's Lasers (ISBN: 0935702113)
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A laser is an oscillator that operates at very high frequencies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
homogeneous lineshape function, biperiodic lens sequence, inhomogeneously broadened amplifier, electron oscillator model, laser level population, monochromatic radiation field, molecular gas lasers, inhomogeneously broadened laser, upper laser level, filled electron states, intracavity intensity, ray transfer matrix, lower laser level, slab guide, idler wavelengths, wiggler field, overall lineshape, bouncing pulse, pumping lamp, amplifying medium, correlation interferometry, dynode structure, extrinsic photoconductivity, lens waveguide, laser oscillation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Academic Press, Detection of Optical Radiation, Optical Frequency Amplifiers, Analysis of Optical Systems, Englewood Cliffs, Laser Applications, Optics of Gaussian Beams, Combining Eqs, Optics of Anisotropic Media, Applied Physics, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Boca Raton, Control of Laser Oscillators, New Jersey, Pergamon Press, Principles of Optics, All Ground, Cambridge University Press, Laser Program Annual Report, Marcel Dekker, Prentice Hall, The Propagation of Rays, Two Practical Laser Systems, Hughes Aircraft Company New!
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A laser is an oscillator that operates at very high frequencies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
homogeneous lineshape function, biperiodic lens sequence, inhomogeneously broadened amplifier, electron oscillator model, laser level population, monochromatic radiation field, molecular gas lasers, inhomogeneously broadened laser, upper laser level, filled electron states, intracavity intensity, ray transfer matrix, lower laser level, slab guide, idler wavelengths, wiggler field, overall lineshape, bouncing pulse, pumping lamp, amplifying medium, correlation interferometry, dynode structure, extrinsic photoconductivity, lens waveguide, laser oscillation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Academic Press, Detection of Optical Radiation, Optical Frequency Amplifiers, Analysis of Optical Systems, Englewood Cliffs, Laser Applications, Optics of Gaussian Beams, Combining Eqs, Optics of Anisotropic Media, Applied Physics, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Boca Raton, Control of Laser Oscillators, New Jersey, Pergamon Press, Principles of Optics, All Ground, Cambridge University Press, Laser Program Annual Report, Marcel Dekker, Prentice Hall, The Propagation of Rays, Two Practical Laser Systems, Hughes Aircraft Company New!
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- Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light by Max Born on 7 pages
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- Quantum Electronics by Amnon Yariv on 4 pages
- Solid State Physics: Advances in Research and Applications, Vol. 32 by Henry Ehrenreich on 4 pages
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