This book, written from an industrial vantage point, provides a detailed discussion of solid-state lasers, their characteristics, design and construction, and practical problems. The title Solid-State Laser Engineering has been chosen because the emphasis is placed on engineering and practical considerations of solid-state lasers. I have tried to enhance the description of the engineering aspects of laser construction and operation by including numerical and technical data, tables, and curves.
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1.Introduction 1.1 Optical Amplification 1.2 Interaction of Radiation with Matter 1.3 Absorption and Optical Gain 1.4 Creation of a Population Inversion 1.5 Laser Rate Equations 2.Properties of Solid-State Laser Materials 2.1 Overview 2.2 Ruby 2.3 Nd:Lasers 2.4 Er:Lasers 2.5 Tunable Lasers 2.6 Yb:YAG 3.Laser Oscillator 3.1 Operation at Threshold 3.2 Gain Saturation 3.3 Circulating Power 3.4 Relaxation Oscillations 3.6 Examples of Regenerative Oscillators 3.7 Travelling-Wave Oscillator 4.Laser Amplifier 4.1 Pulse Amplification 4.2 Steady-State Amplification 4.3 Signal Distortion 4.4 Gain Limitation and Amplifier Stability 5.Optical Resonator 5.1 Transverse Modes 5.2 Longitudinal Modes 5.3 Temporal and Spectral Stability 5.4 Hardware Design 5.5 Unstable Resonators 5.6 Wavelength Selection 6.Optical Pump Systems 6.1 Pump Sorces 6.2 Power Supplies 6.3 Pump Cavities and Coupling Optics 7.Thermo-Optic Effects and Heat Removal 7.1 Cylindrical Geometry 7.2 Cooling Techniques 7.3 Slab and disc Geometries 7.4 End-Pumped Configurations 8.Q-Switching 8.1 Q-Switch Theory …… 9.Mode Locking 10.Nonlinear Devices 11.Damage of Optical Elements AppendixA Laser Safety AppendixB Conversion Factors and Constants References Subject Index
