商品描述
This textbook provides an accessible introduction to laser physics, exploring three key questions: What is special about laser light? What is the physics underlying its generation? And how can laser light be manipulated and used?
The material is presented in a manner that helps the reader develop an understanding of the underlying physics principles and processes without getting bogged down in mathematical details, but there is enough mathematics for the understanding to be quantitative.
The book begins by describing the special properties of laser light and focuses on the physics of light-matter interaction to understand how it acquires them. It builds upon Maxwells equations for light and the classical electron oscillator model for the atoms, augmented with a quantum mechanical picture of atomic energy levels, to provide an accurate physical understanding of light-matter interaction. This approach bypasses the need for a course in quantum theory.
Derivations of key equations are included not only to help readers follow the development of the subject, but also to illustrate that to approximate, simplify, and get analytic results is integral to understanding any complex phenomenon. Subjects such as nonlinear pulse propagation and nonlinear optics are discussed, but only at a level that should help readers to get started in these fields. The choice of topics has been limited to atomic/molecular lasers to allow for their coverage in one semester-long course.
Problems, references and illustrations are included throughout the book, making it an ideal textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate physics and engineering students. Students do not require prior knowledge of physics much beyond an undergraduate-level introduction to electromagnetic theory, including Maxwell's equations, polarization in atomic media and electromagnetic wave propagation.
Key features:
- Provides a qualitative and quantitative understanding of, and appreciation for, the special properties of laser light
- Explores quantum statistics of laser light
- Presents an analytical approach to pulse formation
商品描述(中文翻譯)
本教科書以易於理解的方式介紹雷射物理，探討三個關鍵問題：雷射光有何特殊之處？其產生所依據的物理原理為何？以及如何操控和應用雷射光？
本書以協助讀者理解基本物理原理與相關過程的方式呈現內容，避免陷入繁複的數學細節；但同時也提供足夠的數學內容，使讀者能夠建立定量的理解。
本書首先描述雷射光的特殊性質，並聚焦於光與物質交互作用的物理，藉此了解雷射光如何獲得這些特性。本書以描述光的 Maxwell 方程式，以及原子的經典電子振盪器模型為基礎，再加入原子能階的量子力學觀點，從而提供對光與物質交互作用的精確物理理解。這種方法不需要讀者先修習量子理論課程。
本書納入關鍵方程式的推導，不僅協助讀者掌握主題的發展，也說明近似、簡化並取得解析結果，是理解任何複雜現象不可或缺的一環。本書也討論非線性脈衝傳播與非線性光學等主題，但僅探討至足以協助讀者開始接觸這些領域的程度。書中主題範圍限定於原子／分子雷射，使其內容能在一學期的課程中完整涵蓋。
全書各處皆包含習題、參考資料與插圖，因此非常適合作為高年級大學生與研究生物理及工程相關課程的教科書。讀者不需要具備超出大學部電磁理論導論程度太多的先備物理知識；相關內容包括 Maxwell 方程式、原子介質中的偏振，以及電磁波傳播。
主要特色：
- 以定性與定量方式理解並欣賞雷射光的特殊性質
- 探討雷射光的量子統計
- 介紹脈衝形成的解析方法
作者簡介
Surendra Singh is University Professor of Physics at the University of Arkansas. He received B.Sc. (Honors) and M.Sc. degrees in Nuclear Physics from Banaras Hindu University, India, where he was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal, and a Ph.D. in Quantum Optics from the University of Rochester under the mentorship of Professor Leonard Mandel. His doctoral thesis received the Dexter Prize for Outstanding Physics Thesis.
His teaching and research span laser physics, quantum optics, nonlinear optics, electro-dynamics, and quantum mechanics. He has contributed experimentally and theoretically to the study of noise in lasers and nonlinear optical systems and to the phase and polarization properties of laser beams. He has also developed laboratory courses in lasers and optics and co-authored a graduate-level textbook on quantum mechanics.
He has served as Chair of the Department of Physics at the University of Arkansas, was a Visiting Fellow at JILA, and has held honorary visiting professorships at IIT Madras and the University of Ulm. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and an APS Outstanding Referee.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Surendra Singh 是 University of Arkansas 的物理學大學教授。他在印度 Banaras Hindu University 取得核物理學理學士（榮譽）與理學碩士學位，並獲頒校長金牌；之後在 Leonard Mandel 教授指導下，於 University of Rochester 取得量子光學博士學位。他的博士論文獲頒卓越物理學論文 Dexter Prize。
他的教學與研究涵蓋雷射物理、量子光學、非線性光學、電動力學與量子力學。他以實驗與理論研究，探討雷射及非線性光學系統中的雜訊，以及雷射光束的相位與偏振特性。此外，他也設計了雷射與光學實驗課程，並合著一本研究所程度的量子力學教科書。
他曾擔任 University of Arkansas 物理系系主任，並曾任 JILA 訪問研究員，也曾在 IIT Madras 與 University of Ulm 擔任榮譽訪問教授。他是 American Physical Society Fellow，並獲選為 APS Outstanding Referee。
