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Bertolotti Masers and Lasers, Second Edition

An Historical Approach
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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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



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