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Photonics and lasers :

0471719749

9780471719748

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Photonics and lasers :

[Book]

an introduction /

Richard S. Quimby

Hoboken, N.J. :

Wiley-Interscience,

c2006

xii, 519 p. :

ill. ;

26 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-494) and index

Propagation of light. Review of optics -- Planar waveguides -- Cylindrical waveguides -- Losses in optical fibers -- Dispersion in optical fibers -- Fiber connections and diagnostics -- Photonic crystal optics -- Nonlinear optics -- Review of semiconductor physics -- Generation and detection of light. Review of semiconductor physics -- Light sources -- Light source to waveguide coupling efficiency -- Optical detectors -- Photodiode detectors -- Laser light. Lasers and coherent light -- Optical resonators -- Guassian beam optics -- Stimulated emission and optical gain -- Optical amplifiers -- Laser oscillation -- CW laser characteristics -- Pulsed lasers -- Survey of laser types -- Light-based communications. Optical communications -- Appendix A: Solid angle and the brightness theorem -- Appendix B: Fourier synthesis and the uncertainty relation

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