Lasers, Ultrashort
Lasers (back
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| Ultrashort
laser pulse phenomena, Jean-Claude Diels and Wolfgang
Rudolph, (Academic Press, 1996). |
The only extant textbook treatment
of this subject. |
| Lasers for ultrashort light pulses,
Joachim Herrmann and Bernd Wilhelmi, (North-Holland, 1987). |
One of the first books on the subject.
Still useful. Discussion is more intuitive. |
| Lasers,
Anthony E. Siegman, (University Science Books, 1986). |
Classic text. |
| Principles
of Lasers, 4th ed., Orazio Svelto (Plenum, 1998). |
Great introductory text. The formalism
is not overly dense and you can hop from section to section without
too much trouble. I use this when I teach my Introduction to
Lasers class. |
| Quantum
Electronics, 3rd ed., Amnon Yariv, (Wiley, 1989). |
Treatment is at times archaic, but
still a useful reference. |
| Femtosecond technology - from
basic research to application prospects, T. Kamiya, et. al
(Eds.), Springer Series in Photonics, (Springer-Verlag, 1999). |
From a communications prospective. |
Nonlinear Optics (back to top)
| Nonlinear
Optics, Robert W. Boyd, (Academic Press, 1992). |
Great text. Uses cgs units. |
| Quantum
Electronics, 3rd ed., Amnon Yariv, (Wiley, 1989). |
Treatment is at times archaic, but
still a useful reference. |
| Optical Electronics, 4th
ed., Amnon Yariv, (Saunders College Press, 1991). |
Undergraduate version of Quantum
Electronics. |
| The Principles Of Nonlinear Optics,
Y. R. Shen, (Wiley, 1984). |
One of the first books on the subject.
Terse treatment, but useful for a broad overview. |
| Nonlinear fiber optics, 3rd ed.,
Govind P. Agrawal, (Academic Press, 1991). |
Great treatment of many third order
effects as they apply to propagation in fibers. Good resource
in general. Note that application to fibers is increasingly of
importantance. |
| The Supercontinuum Laser Source,
R. R. Alfano, Ed., (Springer-Verlag, 1989). |
Detailed analysis of third order
effects and the propagation of intense short pulses. A wide variety
of media are considered. |
Quantum Optics and
Basic Optics (back
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(Quantum optics is not really a part of this course. References
given for completeness.)
| Quantum Optics, Marlan O.
Scully and M. Suhail Zubairy, (Cambridge University Press, 1997). |
Good treatment. |
| Elements Of Quantum Optics,
2nd ed., Pierre Meystre and Murray Sargent III, (Springer-Verlag,
1991). |
Also good. |
| Optics,
Ben Crowell |
A free on-line text. Modest in coverage,
but the price is right. |
| Principles of optics, Max
Born and Emil Wolf , with contributions by A.B. Bhatia, et al.,
(Cambridge University Press, 1999). |
A classic. Presents a broad and
formal treatment. |
| Optics, Eugene Hecht, with
contributions by Alfred Zajac, (Addison-Wesley, 1987). |
Good text. Less formal than Principles
of optics. |
| Fundamental of optics, F.
A. Jenkins and H. E. White, (McGraw-Hill, 1976). |
Also a good, but less formal text. |
Other useful references (back to top)
| Fourier transform and its applications,
2nd ed., Ronald Bracewell, (McGraw-Hill, 1986). |
The basis for the introduction given
on the Fourier transform. |
| Numerical recipes in C, 2nd
ed., William Press, Saul Teukolsky, William Vettering and Brian
Flannery, (Cambridge University Press, 1995). |
Or in Fortran, Fortran 90, ...
In addition to providing canned routines for various mathematical
functions, each section begins with a clear, terse discussion
of the problem. |
| Netlib |
Vast source of canned routines. Documentation
can be minimal. |