Coherent Optics: Fundamentals and Applications

by Thomas Kurz, Werner Lauterborn, M. Wiesenfeldt

Book Overview

Since the advent of the laser, coherent optics has developed at an ever increasing pace. There is no doubt about the reason. Coherent light, with its properties so different from the light we are surrounded by, lends itself to numerous applications in science, technology, and life. The bandwidth of coherent optics reaches from holography and interferometry, with its gravitational wave detectors, to the CD player for music, movies, and computers; from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 364207877X
• ISBN13: 9783642078774
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"