Lasers and Electro-optics
Fundamentals and Engineering

This book contains comprehensive coverage of topics in optical physics and engineering for undergraduate students studying laser physics, optoelectronics, photonics and optical engineering.

Christopher C. Davis (Author)

9780521860291, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 20 March 2014

882 pages, 490 b/w illus. 115 exercises
25.3 x 19.3 x 4.2 cm, 2.05 kg

'… if you teach opto-electronics at undergraduate or taught masters level then this should be a serious consideration for your course text. It is well written and well illustrated … and the overall layout and typography is very clear, for which the publishers are to be commended. … a real strength of the book is the detailed consideration given not only to the theory of lasers, resonators and modes but the fairly wide-ranging discussion of a number of important laser systems including dye, chemical and free-electron. … a valuable textbook which I will certainly be recommending to my final year undergraduate and taught masters students.' Peter R. Hobson, Contemporary Physics

Covering a broad range of topics in modern optical physics and engineering, this textbook is invaluable for undergraduate students studying laser physics, optoelectronics, photonics, applied optics and optical engineering. This new edition has been re-organized, and now covers many new topics such as the optics of stratified media, quantum well lasers and modulators, free electron lasers, diode-pumped solid state and gas lasers, imaging and non-imaging optical systems, squeezed light, periodic poling in nonlinear media, very short pulse lasers and new applications of lasers. The textbook gives a detailed introduction to the basic physics and engineering of lasers, as well as covering the design and operational principles of a wide range of optical systems and electro-optic devices. It features full details of important derivations and results, and provides many practical examples of the design, construction and performance characteristics of different types of lasers and electro-optic devices.

1. Electromagnetic waves, light, and lasers
2. Optical frequency amplifiers
3. Introduction to two practical laser systems
4. Optical resonators containing amplifying media
5. Laser radiation
6. Control of laser oscillators
7. Optically pumped solid-state lasers
8. Gas lasers
9. Molecular gas lasers I
10. Molecular gas lasers II
11. Tunable lasers
12. Semiconductor lasers
13. Passive optical systems
14. Periodic optical systems, resonators and inhomogenous media
15. Optics of Gaussian beams
16. Optical fibers and waveguides
17. Optics of anisotropic media
18. The electro-optic and acousto-optic effects and modulation of light beams
19. Introduction to nonlinear processes
20. Wave propagation in nonlinear media
21. Detection of optical radiation
22. Coherence theory
23. Laser applications
Index.

Subject Areas: Optical physics [PHJ], Physics [PH], Mathematics & science [P]