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Lasers are becoming increasingly important in our high-technology environment. Many technicians and engineers who sell, install, operate, and maintain them have limited training in the field of electro-optics. The result can be less efficient usage of these important tools. This 4-part series seeks to rectify that problem by presenting the fundamental operating principles of lasers in an intuitive, non-mathematical manner. Part 3 of this series addresses how lasers work, covering such topics as: spontaneous emission, stimulated emission, laser pumping mechanisms, resonators, intracavity dynamics, longitudinal modes of a resonator, transverse modes and Gaussian Beams.

This online course includes full video recording of the instructor.

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