This Third Edition of the popular text, while retaining nearly all the material of the previous edition, incorporates material on important new developments in lasers and quantum electronics. Covers phase-conjugate optics and its myriad applications, the long wavelength quaternary semiconductor laser, and our deepened understanding of the physics of semiconductor lasers--especially that applying to their current modulations and limiting bandwidth, laser arrays and the related concept of supermodes, quantum well semiconductor lasers, the role of phase amplitude coupling in laser noise, and free-electron lasers. In addition, the chapters on laser noise and third-order nonlinear effects have been extensively revised.
- ISBN10 0471609978
- ISBN13 9780471609971
- Publish Date 9 November 1988 (first published August 1967)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Edition 3rd Edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 704
- Language English