Explores laser principles, properties, types, and dangers of high brightness beams, as well as resonator configurations and pumping methods.
Covers fiber lasers, including types, fabrication, absorption, resonators, and modelocking, with examples and comparisons.
Explores gas and solid-state lasers, discussing stimulated emission, gain saturation, optimal output power, and specific laser types and applications.
Explores the theory and implementation of modelocking in ultrafast lasers, covering active and passive techniques, frequency domain interpretation, and pulse propagation.
Explores the amplification process of light and its relation to atomic structure, absorption coefficients, and refractive indices.
