Principles of Lasers.

Principles of Lasers FOURTH EDITION -- Copyright -- Preface to the Fourth Edition -- Contents -- List of Examples -- 1 Introductory Concepts -- 2 Interaction of Radiation with Atoms and Ions -- 3 Energy Levels, Radiative, and Nonradiative Transitions in Molecules and Semiconductors -- 4 Ray and Wave Propagation through Optical Media -- 5 Passive Optical Resonators -- 6 Pumping Processes -- 7 Continuous Wave Laser Behavior -- 8 Transient Laser Behavior -- 9 Solid-State, Dye, and Semiconductor Lasers -- 10 Gas, Chemical, Free-Electron, and X-Ray Lasers -- 11 Properties of Laser Beams -- 12 Laser Beam Transformation: Propagation, Amplification, Frequency Conversion, Pulse Compression, and Pulse Expansion -- A Semiclassical Treatment of the Interaction of Radiation and Matter -- B Lineshape Calculation for Collision Broadening -- C Simplified Treatment of Amplified Spontaneous Emission -- D Calculation of the Radiative Transition Rates of Molecular Transitions -- E Space-Dependent Rate Equations -- F Mode Locking Theory: Homogeneous Line -- G Propagation of a Laser Pulse through a Dispersive Medium or a Gain Medium -- H Higher-Order Coherence -- I Physical Constants and Useful Conversion Factors -- Answers to Selected Problems -- Index.

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