- Hardback - Number of Pages: 764 pages
- Dimensions: 170 x 232 x 34mm - 1,179.35g
- Publication date: 13 Mar 1997
- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: New York, United States
- Language: English
1. Electromagnetic Theory; 2. The Propagation of Rays and Beams; 3. Propagation of Optical Beams in Fibers; 4. Optical Resonators; 5. Interaction of Radiation and Atomic Systems; 6. Theory of Laser Oscillation and its Control in the Continuous and Pulsed Regimes; 7. Some Specific Laser Systems; 8. Second-Harmonic Generation and Parametric oscillation; 9. Electronic Modulation of Laser Beams; 10. Noise in Optical Detection and Generation; 11. Detection of Optical Radiation; 12. Interaction of Light and Sound; 13. Propagation of Coupling Modes in Optical Dielectric Waveguides-Periodic Waveguides; 14. Holography and Optical Data Storage; 15. Semiconductor Lasers-Theory and Applications; 16. Advanced Semiconductor Lasers: Quantum Well Lasers, Distributed Feedback Lasers, Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers; 17. Phase Conjugate Optics - Theory and Applications; 18. Two-Beam Coupling and Phase Conjugation in Photorefractive Media; 19. Optical Solitons; 20. A Classical Treatment...