Warren Nagourney

Quantum Electronics for Atomic Physics and Telecommunication

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses theoretical and practical aspects for generating and manipulating laser radiation. The second edition includes a new complete chapter on fiber lasers, as well as new coverage of mode locked fiber lasers, comb generation in a micro-resonator, and periodically poled optical waveguides.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 180mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 973g
• ISBN-13: 9780199665488
• ISBN-10: 0199665486
• Artikelnr.: 40137875

Autorenporträt

Following his PhD, Warren Nagourney undertook postdoctoral research at Columbia Radiation Laboratory, Columbia University, New York, after which he joined the physics department of the University of Washington as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in 1977. He remained with the department until his retirement, as a Research Professor, in 2007.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Gaussian beams
2: Optical resonators - geometrical properties
3: Energy relations in optical cavities
4: Optical cavity as frequency discriminator
5: Laser gain and some of its consequences
6: Laser oscillation and pumping mechanisms
7: Descriptions of specific CW laser systems
8: Laser gain in a semiconductor
9: Semiconductor diode lasers
10: Guided wave devices and fiber lasers
11: Mode-locked lasers and frequency metrology
12: Laser frequency stabilization and control systems
13: Atomic and molecular discriminants
14: Nonlinear optics
15: Frequency and amplitude modulation