Fundamentals of Fiber Lasers and Fiber Amplifiers

• Main Author: Ter-Mikirtychev, Vartan V. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2019.
• Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences, 181
• Subjects: Lasers.; Photonics.; Microwaves.; Optical engineering.; Atoms.; Physics.; Solid state physics.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.; Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering.; Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics.; Solid State Physics.; Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics.

This book covers the fundamental aspects of fiber lasers and fiber amplifiers, and includes a wide range of material from laser physics fundamentals to state-of-the-art topics in this rapidly growing field of quantum electronics. This expanded and updated new edition includes substantial new materia...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Optical properties and optical spectroscopy of rare-earth ions in solids
• Electron-phonon coupling in solids
• Physical and optical properties of laser glass
• Mechanical and thermal properties of glass
• Fiber fabrication and high quality glasses for gain fibers
• Spectroscopic properties of and gain fibers
• Propagation of light and spatial modes in optical fibers
• Fiber laser physics fundamentals
• Main fiber laser operational regimes
• Main optical components for fiber lasers and fiber amplifiers design
• High power fiber lasers. Nonlinear frequency conversion
• Raman fiber lasers and amplifiers
• Fiber lasers' industrial applications.