An Introduction to Lasers and Their Applications

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Pub. Date: 1977-01-01
Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley
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Summary

This text is designed to fill the gap between brief reviews of lasers provided in modern physical optics texts and the thorough, graduate-level texts on lasers an quantum mechanics. For those students who may not want to invest a substantial amount of their elective time in extensive course work in this area, it represents a reasonable alternative to a more lengthy treatment.

Author Biography

Professor Donald C. O'Shea received his Ph.D. in Physics from Johns Hopkins and currently teaches at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

A Fellow of the SPIE and the Optical Society of America (OSA), Professor O'Shea is currently the editor of Optical Engineering, the Journal of SPIE. He was awarded the Esther Hoffman Beller Award by OSA for "excellence in the field of optics education" in part for the Optics Discovery Kit he created for use in precollege education. His current research interest is the design, fabrication, and testing of diffractive optical elements, also known as binary optics. He is the co-inventor of a display system for low vision patients and has published more than 50 scientific publications. He is a consultant in the field of laser and optical system design.


Table of Contents

Lasers: A Short Introduction
1(4)
Laser Light
5(46)
Light Waves
5(6)
Monochromaticity
11(2)
Directionality
13(5)
Brightness
18(5)
Light Interference: The Laser Speckle Pattern
23(5)
Coherence
28(11)
Polarization
39(8)
A Note on Coherence
47(4)
Basic Laser Principles
51(28)
The Active Medium: The Atomic Basis for Laser Action
51(11)
Laser Pumping: Creating a Population Inversion
62(7)
Optical Feedback: The Laser Resonator
69(10)
The Laser Output
79(28)
Absorption and Emission Lineshape Broadening
79(10)
Laser Modes: Optical Resonance
89(8)
Pump Rate, Gain Oscillations, and Power Output
97(5)
Gain Saturation in Homogeneously and Inhomogeneously Broadened Lasers
102(5)
Modifying the Laser Output
107(18)
Selection of Laser Emission Lines: Intractivity Elements
107(1)
Single-Mode Operation
108(6)
Q-Switching
114(6)
Mode Locking
120(5)
A Laser Exposition
125(60)
Gas Lasers
125(23)
Doped-Insulator Lasers
148(8)
Semiconductor Lasers
156(11)
Dye Lasers
167(10)
Extending the Range
177(1)
Lasers to Come
178(7)
Holography
185(32)
The Spine Grating
187(11)
The Hologram
198(7)
Applications of Holography
205(12)
Optical Communication
217(26)
The Lantern, the Hand, and the Eye
218(11)
Direct and Coherent Detection
229(3)
Examples of Optical Communication Systems
232(11)
Applications of Laser Power
243(28)
A Power Primer
243(8)
Materials Processing
251(10)
Laser Fusion
261(8)
A Final Point
269(2)
Index 271

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