Laser Sources and Applications
Scottish Graduate Series

Recent years have witnessed rapid advances in the development of solid state, fiber, semiconductor, and parametric sources of coherent radiation, which are opening up new opportunities for laser applications. Laser Sources and Applications provides a tutorial introduction to the basic principles of these developments at a level suitable for postgraduate research students and others with a basic knowledge of lasers and nonlinear optics. Encompassing both the physics and engineering aspects of the field, the book covers the nature of nonlinear optical interactions; solid state, fiber, and semiconductor lasers; optical parametric oscillators; and ultrashort pulse generation and applications. It also explores applications of current interest, such as electromagnetically induced transparency, atomic trapping, and soliton optical communications.

The Nature of the Nonlinear Optical Susceptibility, Third-Order and Cascaded Nonlinearities, Picosecond Optical Pulse Generation Using Semiconductor Lasers, Microcavity Lasers and QED, Solid-State Laser Materials, Diode-Pumped Solid-State Lasers, Fiber Lasers, Optical Parametric Oscillators: Continuous Wave Operation, Pulsed Parametric Oscillators, Ultrashort Pulse Sources, Applications of Ultrashort Optical Pulses, Ultrafast Imaging Techniques, Fiber Nonlinearities, Electromagnetically Induced Transparency, Cooling and Trapping Neutral Atoms with Laser Light

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A. Miller (Edited by) , D. M. Finlayson (Edited by)

Recent years have witnessed rapid advances in the development of solid state, fibre, semiconductor and parametric sources of coherent radiation which are opening up new opportunities for laser applications. This volume of the Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics series provides a tutorial introduction to the basic principles of these developments at a level suitable for postgraduate research students and others with a basic knowledge of lasers and nonlinear optics. The approach encompasses both the physics and engineering aspects of the field.