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Light-Matter Interaction, Fundamentals and Applications (Volume 1)

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This book covers most of the details regarding the light-matter interaction because it points to the actual topics right from the beggining, without boring and escessive formalisms. Even though by having 244 pages, it is more solid and clearer (by a far extent) than Yariv's one, and is much Better than Lounden's book. Perhaps, an odd point of the book could be that it has not extensive excersises left to the reader. Nevertheless, the book "really" introduces to hot topics in the field. I strongly recommend the book for first-year graduated students, and anyone that needs to have a quick straighten up for quantum electronics.

The thing that jumps out is that there is a lot of emphasis on the physical meaning behind the math. It puts everything into perspective quite well.

This book fills a major hole in the education of EEs, p-chemists, and materials scientists that need to know something about the interaction of light and matter. Explanations get past the formal math to reveal the physics behind.