E-Book, Englisch, 502 Seiten
Bertolotti Masers and Lasers, Second Edition
2. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4822-1780-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
An Historical Approach
E-Book, Englisch, 502 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-4822-1780-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
This book examines the progress of research and practical use of lasers chronologically, covering the fundamental science in detail alongside fascinating biographical sketches of famous physicists and summaries of seminal papers. It supplies helpful drawings of prototype devices, conceptual diagrams to aid in understanding, and remarkable historical photographs. The Second Edition features new chapters on ultrashort pulse lasers and nonlinear optics, incorporates the latest developments and insights from key scientists, and includes extensive updates on fiber lasers, amplifiers, ultraviolet and X-ray lasers, and plasmonic lasers.
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Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction
Stimulated Emission: Could the Laser Have Been Built More than 50 Years Ago?
Stimulated Emission
The Role of Stimulated Emission in the Theory of Light Dispersion
Experimental Proofs of Negative Dispersion
More on Negative Absorption
Notes
Intermezzo: Magnetic Resonance and Optical Pumping
Introduction
Magnetic Resonance
Bloch, Purcell, and Zavoisky
Bloch Equations
Experimental Proofs of Population Inversion
The Concept of Negative Temperature
The Overhauser Effect
Spin Echo
Optical Pumping
Notes
The Maser
Introduction
Weber’s Maser
Townes and the First Ammonia Maser
Basov and Prokhorov and the Soviet Approach to the Maser
The Three-Level Solid-State Maser
Optically Pumped Masers
Maser Action in Nature
Other Proposed Systems
Notes
The Laser
Introduction
The Townes and Schawlow Proposal
Townes and Schawlow’s Ideas
The Gordon Gould Story
The Dicke Coherence-Brightened Laser
Soviet Research
Notes
The Laser: Further Progress
Introduction
The Ruby Laser
The Four-Level Laser
The Gas Laser
Laser Cavities
Further Progress in the Gaseous Laser
The Liquid Laser: Dye and Chelate Lasers
The Chemical Laser
The Semiconductor Laser
The Free-Electron Laser
Notes
Nonlinear Optics
Introduction
Prehistory of Nonlinear Optics
Bloembergen and the Start of Nonlinear Optics
Nonlinear Effects in Lasers
The Great Explosion between 1962 and 1964
Stimulated Brillouin and Raman Scattering
Self-Phase Modulation, Solitons, and Other Nonlinear Effects
Nonlinear Effects at Nanoscale
Notes
From Milliseconds to Attoseconds
Introduction
Dye Lasers for Picosecond Pulses
Ti:sapphire Laser
Femtosecond Lasers
Attosecond Lasers
Notes
The Statistical Properties of Light
Introduction
The Introduction of the Concept of the Photon
Fluctuations of Radiant Energy
Bose and the Statistics of Radiation
Further Developments in the Theory of Fluctuations of Radiation Fields
The Hanbury Brown and Twiss Experiment
The Quantum Theory of Coherence
The Discussion of the Need for Quantum Optics
Experimental Studies of the Statistical Properties of Light
The Photon Is Really a Quantum Concept
Single-Photon Sources
Notes
