Quantum Electronics
Published on 9. November 1988
Book
Paperback/Softback
696 pages
978-0-471-61771-6 (ISBN)
Description
This third edition of the popular text, while retaining nearly all the material of the previous edition, incorporates material on important new developments in lasers and quantum electronics. The book covers phase-conjugate optics and its myriad applications, the long wavelength quaternary semiconductor laser, and our deepened understanding of the physics of semiconductor lasers - especially that applying to their current modulations and limiting bandwidth, laser arrays and the related concept of supermodes, quantum well semiconductor lasers, the role of phase amplitude coupling in laser noise, and free-electron lasers. In addition, the chapters on laser noise and third-order nonlinear effects have been extensively revised. The previous edition of this book was published in 1975.
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Edition
International 2 Revised ed
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
indices
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
850 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-61771-6 (9780471617716)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Basic theorems and postulates of quantum mechanics; some solutions of the time-independent Schredinger equation; matrix formulation of quantum mechanics; lattice vibrations and their quantization; electromagnetic fields and their quantization; the propagation of optical beams in homogeneous and lenslike media; optical resonators; interaction of radiation and atomic systems; laser oscillation; some specific laser systems; semiconductor diode lasers; quantum well lasers; the free-electron laser; the modulation of optical radiation; coherent interactions of a radiation field and an atomic system; introduction to nonlinear optics - second-harmonic generation; parametric amplification, oscillation and fluorescence; third-order optical nonlinearities - simulated Raman and Brillouin scattering; phase-conjugate-optics and photoreactive beam coupling; q-switching and mode locking of lasers; noise in laser amplifiers and oscillators; guided wave optics - propagation in optical fibers. Appendices.