Excerpts from SPIE Press books on laser technology authored and edited by experts in the field, available through free, open access as eBook chapters in the SPIE Digital Library or on Optipedia on SPIE.org.
Field Guide to Laser Pulse Generation, Rüdiger Paschotta
(© SPIE 30 October 2008)
Introduction to Optical Pulses
Pulse Trains and Frequency Combs
Q Switching
Gain Switching
Mode Locking
Optical Solitons
Harmonic Mode Locking
Soliton Fiber Lasers
Autocorrelators Fundamentals of Photonics, Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri, Editor
(© SPIE 23 May 2008)
Light Sources and Laser Safety, Fred Seeber
Lasers, William Silfvast Field Guide to Lasers, Rüdiger Paschotta
(© SPIE 15 January 2008)
Principle of a Laser
Spontaneous and Stimulated Emission
Optical Pumping: Three- and Four-Level Systems
Gaussian Beams
Waveguide Modes
Planar and Channel Waveguides
Semiconductor Lasers
Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers
Vertical-External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers
Quantum Cascade Lasers
Thin-Disk Lasers
Dye Lasers
Gas Lasers
Helium-Neon Lasers
Carbon-Dioxide Lasers
Excimer Lasers Fourier-Transform Spectroscopy Instrumentation Engineering, Vidi Saptari
(© SPIE 3 November 2003)
Laser Interferometer Laser Beam Scintillation with Applications, Larry Andrews, Ronald Phillips, Cynthia Hopen
(© SPIE 20 July 2001)
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