Masers and Lasers : an Historical Approach, Second Edition

✍ Scribed by Mario Bertolotti

• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 487
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Masers and Lasers: An Historical Approach 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. This Second Edition contains 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Contents
Foreword to the First Edition
Foreword to the Second Edition
Preface
Author
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Stimulated Emission : Could the Laser Have Been Built More than 80 Years Ago?
Chapter 3: Intermezzo : Magnetic Resonance and Optical Pumping
Chapter 4: The Maser
Chapter 5: The Laser
Chapter 6: The First Lasers
Chapter 7: Laser Properties and Progresses in Novel Lasers
Chapter 8: Nonlinear Optics
Chapter 9: More Exotic Lasers
Chapter 10: The Statistical Properties of Light
Back Cover