Optics, light and lasers : the practical approach to modern aspects of photonics and laser physics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meschede, Dieter, 1954-
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Weinheim [Germany] : Wiley-VCH, [2007]
Edition:2nd, rev. and enl. ed.
Series:Physics textbook.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Light rays
  • Wave optics
  • Light propagation in matter
  • Optical images
  • Coherence and interferometry
  • Light and matter
  • The laser
  • Laser dynamics
  • Semiconductor lasers
  • Sensors for light
  • Laser spectoscopy
  • Photons : an introduction to quantum optics
  • Nonlinear optics I: optical mixing processes
  • Nonlinear optics II: four-wave mixing
  • Appendix A: Mathematics for optics
  • Appendix B: Supplements in quantum mechanics.