Fundamentals of laser dynamics /

The book explores the current state of laser dynamics and provides reference data and basic experimental facts for old and new generation lasers. The most frequently used mathematical models are presented. The author discusses the reasons for spontaneous occurrence of pulsation of the intensity of t...

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Main Author: Khanin, I︠A︡. I. (I︠A︡kov Izrailevich)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge International Science Pub., 2006
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • About the Author; Contents; Preface; 1. Quantum Oscillators: General Considerations; 1.1. Principle of Operation and Practical Implementation; 1.2. Time-Dependent Processes in Quantum Oscillators; 2. Basic Equations for the Dynamical Behaviour of Lasers; 2.1. Equations for the Electromagnetic Field; 2.2. Equations for the Dynamics of the Material; 2.3. Self-Consistent Semiclassical Set of Laser Equations; 3. Single-Mode Lasers; 3.1. Dynamical Models of Homogeneously Broadened Lasers; 3.2. Traveling-Wave Laser with Homogeneous Active Medium; 3.3. Single-Mode Standing-Wave Class B Laser.
  • 3.4. Instabilities and Chaos in a Travelling-Wave Single-Mode Laser3.5. Dynamics of Three-Level Lasers with Coherent Pumping; 3.6. Effect of Inhomogeneous Broadening on the Laser Dynamic Characteristic; 4. Multimode Lasers with Frequency-Nondegenerate Modes; 4.1. Rate Equations Model with Spatial Mode Competition and Its Time Independent; 4.2. Relaxation Oscillations as Low Frequency Normal Laser Modes; 4.3. Time-Depende.