Lasers are ubiquitous-from deep space
communication to lab on the chip to supermarket product scanning. Although they
form an integral part of optics & photonics and extensively used in research areas of
science and technology to create multibillion dollar industries, the progress
in severely limited in the subcontinent due to lack of experimental training in
this field. The need of the hour is to have a
self-sufficient book containing laser-related concepts readily available to
beginners. The book is written keeping undergraduate and graduate students in
mind to possibly serve as a textbook. It is also aimed to provide fundamental
reference material on ultrafast lasers and photonics for researchers in the
field of optics and bioengineering.



Key Features:







Proposed book deals with
the basics of lasers.



Contains a
chapter dedicated to the required spectroscopy and the one for the line broadening
mechanisms.



Special
emphasis on the phenomena related to modern ultrafast lasers, and their
applications.



Sufficient
mathematics, instead of details have been given to be able to understand the
topic by the reader.



Basics of
lasers, ultrafast lasers, Q-switching
and modelocking, characterisation techniques of ultrafast pulses, four wave
mixing, semiconductor and fibre lasers, high harmonic generation.