Название: Introduction to Photonics and Laser Physics with Applications
Автор: Prem B Bisht
Издательство: IOP Publishing
Серия: IOP Series in Advances in Optics, Photonics and Optoelectronics
Год: 2022
Страниц: 444
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 53.3 MB

Lasers are ubiquitous-from deep space communication to lab on the chip to supermarket product scanning. Although they form an integral part of optics & photonics and extensively used in research areas of science and technology to create multibillion dollar industries, the progress in severely limited in the subcontinent due to lack of experimental training in this field. The need of the hour is to have a self-sufficient book containing laser-related concepts readily available to beginners. The book is written keeping undergraduate and graduate students in mind to possibly serve as a textbook. It is also aimed to provide fundamental reference material on ultrafast lasers and photonics for researchers in the field of optics and bioengineering.

Optoelectronics - this is an area in which both electrical current and light are required for the operation of a device. The presence of electronics in the device controls the optical character of the device. Devices that fall into this category are electronic in nature but evolve light. Examples include the light-emitting diodes, solar cells, and display devices in modern equipment, including smartphones. Edison’s bulb may fall into this category as well. Specialized centers are dedicated to this topic worldwide. This research area has immense applications in the photonics industry.

Key Features:

Proposed book deals with the basics of lasers.
Contains a chapter dedicated to the required spectroscopy and the one for the line broadening mechanisms.
Special emphasis on the phenomena related to modern ultrafast lasers, and their applications.
Sufficient mathematics, instead of details have been given to be able to understand the topic by the reader.
Basics of lasers, ultrafast lasers, Q-switching and modelocking, characterisation techniques of ultrafast pulses, four wave mixing, semiconductor and fibre lasers, high harmonic generation.