Ultrafast Lasers and Optics for Experimentalists (Second Edition).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pickering, James D.

Series:

IOP Ebooks Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Laser pulses, Ultrashort.

Nonlinear optics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Institute of Physics Publishing, 2024.

Summary:

This book is an accessible introduction to the world of ultrafast lasers and optics, explaining key principles and practical use cases.

Contents:

PRELIMS.pdf

Common terminology

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Author biography

James David Pickering

CH001.pdf

Chapter Lasers and laser light

1.1 Why lasers?

1.2 Laser action

1.3 Laser light

1.3.1 Pulsed lasers and time–bandwidth products

1.3.2 The transform limit

1.3.3 Repetition rates and laser power

1.3.4 Polarisation

1.3.5 Beyond linear polarisation

1.4 Gaussian beams

1.4.1 Ideal beam parameters

1.4.2 Deviations from ideality

References

CH002.pdf

Chapter Bandwidth and dispersion

2.1 Origins of dispersion

2.2 Dispersion, ultrafast pulses, and chirp

2.3 Propagation through a dispersive medium

2.3.1 The role of the spectral phase

2.3.2 Spectral phase and refractive index

2.4 Group delay dispersion

2.5 Predicting broadening from dispersion

2.5.1 Dispersion of optical elements Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

9780750361996

0750361999

OCLC:

1500771515