Laser Electronics Book

1. Review of Electromagnetic Theory.
2. Ray Tracing in an Optical System.
3. Gaussian Beams.
4. Guided Optical Beams.
5. Optical Cavities.
6. Resonant Optical Cavities.
7. Atomic Radiation.
8. Laser Oscillation and Amplification.
9. General Characteristics of Lasers.
10. Laser Excitation.
11. Semiconductor Lasers.
12. Advanced Electromagnetics of Lasers.
13. Maxwell's Equations and the Classical Atom.
14. Quantum Theory of the Field-Atom Interaction.
15. Spectroscopy of Common Lasers.
16. Detection of Optical Radiation.
17. Gas-Discharge Phenomena.
Appendix i: An Introduction to Scattering Matrices.
Appendix ii: "Detailed Balancing" or "Microscopic Reversibility."
Appendix iii: The Kramer-Kronig Relations.
Author Index.
Subject Index.