Laser Principles
Credits: 3
Type: Compulsory
Duration: C1
COURSE INDEX
- The laser concept: Introduction and basic ideas.
- Stimulated emission.
- Population inversion and pumping schemes.
- Optical cavities and laser radiation.
- Properties of laser beams.
- Types of lasers.
- Control of lasers beams.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- O. Svelto, Principles of Lasers, 5th ed. Springer (2010).
- S. Hooker and C. Webb, Laser Physics, Oxford University Press (2010).
- M. Eichhorn, Laser Physics, Springer (2014).
- W. T. Silfvast, Laser Fundamentals, Cambridge University Press (2008).
- VV.AA., El láser, la luz de nuestro tiempo, Universidad de Salamanca (2010).