Quantum electronics for atomic physics and telecommunication / Warren Nagourney.

Nagourney provides a course in quantum electronics for researchers in atomic physics and other related areas (including telecommunications). The book covers the usual topics, such as Gaussian beams, optical cavities, lasers, non-linear optics, modulation techniques and fibre optics, but also include...

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Main Author:	Nagourney, Warren G. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edition:	Second edition.
Series:	Oxford graduate texts.
Subjects:	Quantum electronics. Laser beams. SCIENCE > Physics > Electricity. SCIENCE > Physics > Electromagnetism. Laser beams Quantum electronics
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

Gaussian beams
Optical resonators : geometrical properties
Energy relations in optical cavities
Optical cavity as frequency discriminator
Laser gain and some of its consequences
Laser oscillation and pumping mechanisms
Descriptions of specific CW laser systems
Laser gain in a semiconductor
Semiconductor diode lasers
Guided-wave devices and fiber lasers
Mode-locked lasers and frequency metrology
Laser frequency stabilization and control systems
Atomic and molecular discriminants
Nonlinear optics
Frequency and amplitude modulation.
Machine generated contents note: 1. Gaussian beams
1.1. Introduction
1.2. The paraxial wave equation
1.3. Gaussian beam functions and the complex beam parameter, q
1.4. Some Gaussian beam properties
1.5. The phase term: Gouy phase
1.6. Simple transformation properties of the complex beam parameter
1.7. Matrix formulation of paraxial ray optics: ABCD rule
1.8. Further reading
1.9. Problems
2. Optical resonators
geometrical properties
2.1. Introduction
2.2. The two-mirror standing-wave cavity
2.3. Stability
2.4. Solution for an arbitrary two-mirror stable cavity
2.5. Higher-order modes
2.6. Resonant frequencies
2.7. The traveling-wave (ring) cavity
2.8. Astigmatism in a ring cavity
2.9. Mode matching
2.10. Beam quality characterization: the M2 parameter
2.11. Further reading
2.12. Problems
3. Energy relations in optical cavities
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Reflection and transmission at an interface.
Note continued: 3.3. Reflected fields from standing-wave cavity
3.4. Internal (circulating) field in a standing-wave cavity
3.5. Reflected and internal intensities
3.6. The resonant character of the reflected and circulating intensities
3.7. Impedance matching
3.8. Fields and intensities in ring cavity
3.9.A novel reflective coupling scheme using a tilted wedge
3.10. Photon lifetime
3.11. The quality factor, Q
3.12. Relation between Q and finesse
3.13. Alternative representation of cavity loss
3.14. Experimental determination of cavity parameters
3.15. Farther reading
3.16. Problems
4. Optical cavity as frequency discriminator
4.1. Introduction
4.2.A simple example
4.3. Side of resonance discriminant
4.4. The manipulation of polarized beams: the Jones calculus
4.5. The polarization technique
4.6. Frequency modulation
4.7. The Pound
Drever
Hall approach
4.8. Frequency response of a cavity-based discriminator.
Note continued: 4.9. Further reading
4.10. Problems
5. Laser gain and some of its consequences
5.1. Introduction
5.2. The wave equation
5.3. The interaction term
5.4. The rotating-wave approximation
5.5. Density matrix of two-level system
5.6. The classical Bloch equation
5.7. Connection between two-level atom and spin-1/2 system
5.8. Radiative and collision-induced damping
5.9. The atomic susceptibility and optical gain
5.10. The Einstein A and B coefficients
5.11. Doppler broadening: an example of inhomogeneous broadening
5.12.Comments on saturation
5.13. Further reading
5.14. Problems
6. Laser oscillation and pumping mechanisms
6.1. Introduction
6.2. The condition for laser oscillation
6.3. The power output of a laser
6.4. Pumping in three-level and four-level laser systems
6.5. Laser oscillation frequencies and pulling
6.6. Inhomogeneous broadening and multimode behavior
6.7. Spatial hole burning.
Note continued: 6.8. Some consequences of the photon model for laser radiation
6.9. The photon statistics of laser radiation
6.10. The ultimate linewidth of a laser
6.11. Further reading
6.12. Problems
7. Descriptions of specific CW laser systems
7.1. Introduction
7.2. The He-Ne laser
7.3. The argon-ion laser
7.4. The continuous-wave organic dye laser
7.5. The titanium
sapphire laser
7.6. The CW neodymium
yttrium-aluminum
garnet (Nd:YAG) laser
7.7. The YAG non-planar ring oscillator: a novel ring laser geometry
7.8. Diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) YAG lasers
7.9. Further reading
8. Laser gain in a semiconductor
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Solid-state physics background
8.3. Optical gain in a semiconductor
8.4. Further reading
8.5. Problems
9. Semiconductor diode lasers
9.1. Introduction
9.2. The homojunction semiconductor laser
9.3. The double heterostructure laser
9.4. Quantum-well lasers.
Note continued: 9.5. Distributed feedback lasers
9.6. The rate equations and relaxation oscillations
9.7. Diode laser frequency control and linewidth
9.8. External cavity diode lasers (ECDLs)
9.9. Semiconductor laser amplifiers and injection locking
9.10. Miscellaneous characteristics of semiconductor lasers
9.11. Further reading
9.12. Problems
10. Guided-wave devices and fiber lasers
10.1. Introduction
10.2. Slab waveguide: preliminary analysis
10.3. Wave propagation in a slab waveguide
10.4. Wave propagation in a fiber
ray theory
10.5. Wave propagation in a fiber
wave theory
10.6. Dispersion in fibers and waveguides
10.7. Coupling into optical fibers
10.8. Fiber-optic components
10.8.1. Directional coupler
10.8.2. The loop reflector
10.8.3. Fiber Bragg gratings
10.8.4. Optical isolators and circulators
10.8.5. Amplitude and phase modulation
10.8.6. Polarization-preserving fibers
10.8.7. Polarization controller.
Note continued: 10.9. The physics of rare earth ions in glasses
10.10. Some specific fiber lasers
10.10.1. Fiber laser resonators
10.10.2. Erbium and erbium/ytterbium lasers
10.10.3. Neodymium lasers
10.10.4. Ytterbium lasers
10.10.5. Thulium lasers
10.11. Further reading
10.12. Problems
11. Mode-locked lasers and frequency metrology
11.1. Introduction
11.2. Theory of mode locking
11.3. Mode-locking techniques
11.4. Dispersion and its compensation
11.5. The mode-locked Ti-sapphire laser
11.6. Mode-locked fiber lasers
11.7. Frequency metrology using a femtosecond laser
11.8. The carrier envelope offset
11.9.Comb generation in a microresonator
11.10. Further reading
11.11. Problems
12. Laser frequency stabilization and control systems
12.1. Introduction
12.2. Laser frequency stabilization
a first look
12.3. The effect of the loop filter
12.4. Elementary noise considerations
12.5. Some linear system theory.
Note continued: 12.6. The stability of a linear system
12.7. Negative feedback
12.8. Some actual control systems
12.9. Temperature stabilization
12.10. Laser frequency stabilization
12.11. Optical-fiber phase noise and its cancellation
12.12. Characterization of laser frequency stability
12.13. Frequency locking to a noisy resonance
12.14. Further reading
12.15. Problems
13. Atomic and molecular discriminants
13.1. Introduction
13.2. Sub-Doppler saturation spectroscopy
13.3. Sub-Doppler dichroic atomic vapor laser locking and polarization spectroscopy
13.4. An example of a side-of-line atomic discriminant
13.5. Further reading
13.6. Problems
14. Nonlinear optics
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Anisotropic crystals
14.3. Second-harmonic generation
14.4. Birefringent phase matching
14.5. Quasi-phase matching
14.6. Second-harmonic generation using a focused beam
14.7. Second-harmonic generation in a cavity.
Note continued: 14.8. Sum-frequency generation
14.9. Periodically poled optical waveguides
14.10. Parametric interactions
14.11. Further reading
14.12. Problems
15. Frequency and amplitude modulation
15.1. Introduction
15.2. The linear electro-optic effect
15.3. Bulk electro-optic modulators
15.4. Traveling-wave electro-optic modulators
15.5. Acousto-optic modulators
15.6. Further reading
15.7. Problems.

Quantum electronics for atomic physics and telecommunication / Warren Nagourney.

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