Introduction to Lasers and Their Applications

This text is designed to fill the gap between brief reviews of lasers provided in modern physical optics texts and the thorough, graduate-level texts on lasers an quantum mechanics. For those students who may not want to invest a substantial amount of their elective time in extensive course work in this area, it represents a reasonable alternative to a more lengthy treatment Features: The text gives students the concepts and vocabulary needed to understand the latest advances and applications. Enables students to understand a laser specification sheet. The mathematical level is kept relatively simple to ensure that the text will be useful to a large number of students, not just the mathematically more sophisticated physics and engineering students.