Karl F. Renk

Basics of Laser Physics (eBook, PDF)

For Students of Science and Engineering

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This textbook provides an introductory presentation of all types of lasers. It contains a general description of the laser, a theoretical treatment and a characterization of its operation as it deals with gas, solid state, free-electron and semiconductor lasers. This expanded and updated second edition of the book presents a description of the dynamics of free-electron laser oscillation using a model introduced in the first edition that allows a reader to understand basic properties of a free-electron laser and makes the difference to "conventional" lasers. The discussions and the treatment of equations are presented in a way that a reader can immediately follow. The book addresses graduate and undergraduate students in science and engineering, featuring problems with solutions and over 400 illustrations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Seitenzahl: 676
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319506517
• Artikelnr.: 53035830

Autorenporträt

Karl F. Renk received a diploma degree (1962) and a Ph.D. (1966) in physics from the Universität Freiburg, Germany. He worked as a Senior Research Physicist at the University Reading, Great Britain (1966/67) and as Wissenschaftlicher Assistant at the Technische Universität München (1967-72). From 1972 to 2006, he was a Professor of Physics at the Universität Regensburg, Germany, and since 2006, Professor Emeritus. He had visiting appointments at the Research Center Jülich (1974), High-Field Magnet Laboratory of the Max-Planck Society, Grenoble (1976), University of California, Los Angeles (1980/81), Université Scientific et Médicale de Grenoble (1985/86), and at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand (1992) as a New Zealand Erskine Fellow. Professor Renk is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, and the Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte. He developed the first Fabry-Perot interferometer for the far infrared (1962), later far infrared lasers and, finally, millimeter wave devices based on semiconductor superlattices and applied the techniques together with optical laser techniques to study dynamical processes of low-energy excitations in solids. The work is documented in about 250 scientific publications.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I General description of a laser and an example.- Laser principle.- Fabry-Perot resonator.- The active medium: energy levels and line broadening.- Titanium-sapphire laser.- Part II Theoretical basis of the laser.- Basis of the theory of the laser: the Einstein coefficients.- Amplification of coherent radiation.- Laser theory.- Polarization and current in a laser medium.- Part III Operation of a laser.- Cavity resonator.- Open resonator.- Different ways of operation of a laser.- Femtosecond laser.- Part IV Types of lasers (except semiconductor lasers).- Solid state laser.- Some other lasers and laser amplifiers.- Free-electron laser.- Part V Semiconductor lasers.- An introduction to semiconductor lasers.- Basis of the bipolar semiconductor laser.- GaAs quantum well laser.- Semiconductor materials and heterostructures.- Quantum well lasers from the UV to the infrared.- Reflectors of quantum well lasers.- More about the quantum well laser.- Quantum wire and quantum dot laser.- Double-heterostructure laser and homojunction laser and a comparison of semiconductor lasers.- Unipolar semiconductor laser.- Part VI Laser related topics.- Optical communication.- Light emitting diode.- Nonlinear Optics.