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" Photonics and lasers : "
Richard S. Quimby
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BL
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630021
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| Main Entry
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Quimby, Richard S
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| Title & Author
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Photonics and lasers : : an introduction /\ Richard S. Quimby
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| Publication Statement
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Hoboken, N.J. :: Wiley-Interscience,, c2006
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xii, 519 p. :: ill. ;; 26 cm
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0471719749
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: 9780471719748
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-494) and index
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| Contents
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Propagation of light. Review of optics -- Planar waveguides -- Cylindrical waveguides -- Losses in optical fibers -- Dispersion in optical fibers -- Fiber connections and diagnostics -- Photonic crystal optics -- Nonlinear optics -- Review of semiconductor physics -- Generation and detection of light. Review of semiconductor physics -- Light sources -- Light source to waveguide coupling efficiency -- Optical detectors -- Photodiode detectors -- Laser light. Lasers and coherent light -- Optical resonators -- Guassian beam optics -- Stimulated emission and optical gain -- Optical amplifiers -- Laser oscillation -- CW laser characteristics -- Pulsed lasers -- Survey of laser types -- Light-based communications. Optical communications -- Appendix A: Solid angle and the brightness theorem -- Appendix B: Fourier synthesis and the uncertainty relation
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Photonics
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Lasers
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| Dewey Classification
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621.36
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TA1520.Q85 2006
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