Tunable Laser Optics

<p>Broadly tunable lasers have had and continue to have an enormous impact in many and diverse fields of science and technology. From a renaissance in spectroscopy to laser guide stars and laser cooling the nexus is the tunable laser.</p><p>Tunable Laser Optics offers a transparent and comprehensive treatment of the physics of tunable laser optics based on a detailed description of first principles. Authored by a leading expert in the field the book covers the optics and optical principles needed to build lasers the optics instrumentation necessary to characterize laser emission and laser-based optical instrumentation addressing key topics such as Dirac’s notation the interferometric equation the uncertainty principle pulse compression and tunable narrow-linewidth lasers.</p><p>This revised expanded and improved <b>Second Edition</b>:</p><ul> <li>Contains new and additional material on tunable lasers and quantum optics</li> <li>Explains the first principles of tunable laser optics in a clear and concise manner</li> <li>Presents an explicit exposition of the relevant theory without the use of short cuts</li> <li>Employs numerous examples case studies and figures to illustrate important concepts</li> <li>Includes carefully designed problems of direct practical significance to stimulate application</li> </ul><p>Emphasizing the utilitarian aspects of the optics and theory <b>Tunable Laser Optics Second Edition </b>provides valuable insight into the optics and the trade-offs involved in the design and construction of tunable lasers and optical devices. It makes an ideal textbook for advanced undergraduate-level and graduate-level optics courses for physics and engineering students as well as a handy reference for researchers and experimentalists.</p>