"Version: 20161101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction : from death rays to smartphones2. Optical propagation -- 2.1. Electromagnetic fields -- 2.2. Helmholtz equation and wave optics3. Gaussian beams and lasers -- 3.1. Lasers -- 3.2. Gaussian beams -- 3.3. Coherent a…
"Version: 20171101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. What are electromagnetic waves? -- 1.1. Electromagnetic (EM) radiation -- 1.2. Characterization of EM waves -- 1.3. Basic properties of EM waves2. Lasers and applying EM wave theory -- 2.1. How does a laser work? -- 2.2. Laser resonator …
"Version: 20190901"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Lasers. 1. The basic physics of lasers -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Optical spectra -- 1.3. Stimulated emission -- 1.4. Creating a population inversion -- 1.5. Laser modes and coherence -- 1.6. Problems2. Types of lasers I : convent…
"Version: 20250501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Semiconductor band structure and heterostructures -- 1.1. Atom shape and crystal structure -- 1.2. Atomic orbitals and hybridization -- 1.3. The one-electron Schr?odinger equation -- 1.4. Bloch's theorem -- 1.5. The origin of complex band structure -- 1.6. The tight-binding method -- 1.7. Tight binding in three dimensi…
"Version: 20180701"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Semiconductor band structure and heterostructures -- 1.1. Atom shape and crystal structure -- 1.2. Hybridization -- 1.3. Crystal structure -- 1.4. The one-electron Schr?odinger equation -- 1.5. Bloch's theorem -- 1.6. The origin of compl…
"Version: 20240601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction / F.J. Duarte -- 2. Organic laser dyes / F.J. Duarte -- 3. Energetics of organic laser dyes / F.J. Duarte -- 4. Polymer matrices for lasers / F.J. Duarte and K.M. Vaeth -- 5. Cavity and resonator architectures for high-performance organic laser oscillators / F.J. Duarte -- 6. Mathematical-physics for tunab…
"Version: 202203"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy in dentistry / Z?uhre Akarslan -- Raman spectroscopy for dentistry applications / Saturnino Marco Lupi, Claudia Todaro, Benedetta Albini and Pietro Galinetto -- Applications of fluorescence spectroscopy in dentistry / Monalisa Mishra -- ESR spectroscopy techniques for dentistry applicati…
"Version: 20201101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction : from death rays to smartphones -- 2. Optical propagation -- 2.1. Electromagnetic fields -- 2.2. Helmholtz equation and wave optics -- 2.3. Looking forward3. Gaussian beams and lasers -- 3.1. Lasers -- 3.2. Gaussian beams -- 3.3. Coherent and squeezed states -- 3.4. Optical tweezers4. Orbital angular mome…
"Version: 20201101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. What are electromagnetic waves? -- 1.1. Electromagnetic radiation -- 1.2. Characterization of EM waves -- 1.3. Basic properties of EM waves -- 1.4. Summary2. Lasers and applying EM wave theory -- 2.1. How does a laser work? -- 2.2. Laser resonator -- 2.3. Types of lasers -- 2.4. Tuning of laser output wavelength -- 2.5…
Revised edition of: Lasers and their application to the observation of Bose-Einstein condensates."Version: 20230501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Lasers. 1. The basic physics of lasers -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Optical spectra -- 1.3. Stimulated emission -- 1.4. Creating a population inversion -- 1.5. Laser modes and coherence2. Conventional lasers -- 2.1. In…