Lasers and Electro-optics: Fundamentals and Engineering Book

	Preface
1	Spontaneous and Stimulated Transitions	1
2	Optical Frequency Amplifiers	22
3	Introduction to Two Practical Laser Systems	57
4	Passive Optical Resonators	68
5	Optical Resonators Containing Amplifying Media	88
6	Laser Radiation	108
7	Control of Laser Oscillators	126
8	Optically Pumped Solid-State Lasers	141
9	Gas Lasers	185
10	Molecular Gas Lasers I	207
11	Molecular Gas Lasers II	225
12	Tunable Lasers	248
13	Semiconductor Lasers	267
14	Analysis of Optical Systems I	312
15	Analysis of Optical Systems II	337
16	Optics of Gaussian Beams	348
17	Optical Fibers and Waveguides	387
18	Optics of Anisotropic Media	438
19	The Electro-Optic and Acousto-Optic Effects and Modulation of Light Beams	472
20	Introduction to Nonlinear Processes	508
21	Wave Propagation in Nonlinear Media	524
22	Detection of Optical Radiation	561
23	Coherence Theory	607
24	Laser Applications	647
	Appendix 1 Optical Terminology	676
	Appendix 2 The [delta]-Function	679
	Appendix 3 Black-Body Radiation Formulas	681
	Appendix 4 RLC Circuit	683
	Appendix 5 Storage and Transport of Energy by Electromagnetic Fields	686
	Appendix 6 The Reflection and Refraction of a Plane Electromagnetic Wave at the Boundary Between Two Isotropic Media of Different Refractive Index	689
	Appendix 7 The Vector Differential Equation for Light Rays	692
	Appendix 8 Symmetry Properties of Crystals and the 32 Crystal Classes	695
	Appendix 9 Tensors	698
	Appendix 10 Bessel Function Relations	701
	Appendix 11 Green's Functions	702
	Appendix 12 Recommended Values of Some Physical Constants	705
	Index	706