Introduction to Laser Physics (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics)

xiv, 311 pp. CONTENTS: Historical Introduction; Laser Literature and Bibliography; Background Material on Radiation and Atomic Physics; General Description and Theory of Lasers; Solid-State Lasers; Fluid-State Lasers; Gas Lasers; Variation of Laser Oscillations in Space and Time; Nonlinear Phenomena; Laser Applications; Appendix; Index.