Laser Physics

by Murray Sargent

Book Overview

"This book treats the interaction of radiation with matter, particular attention being paid to the laser. Knowledge is assumed of the usual half-year introduction of quantum mechanics found in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201067196
• ISBN13: 9780201067194
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Extremely useful for a laser physicist!

It is a very nice and easy to understand book for me. Of course, you need to have a good knowledge of the basic quantum mechanics and differential equations. But nevertheless, you'll understand the laser phenomenon quite well if you can chalk out the math to fill the gap between the equations. It gives analytical expressions which you can use to plot some graphs and get some feeling about the physics behind that expressions (and not just a mathematical scramble)! I strongly recommend this book for a serious reader and researchers who want to know some good laser physics.

Excellent book

I wouldn't say this book is hard to read, as the other reader claims. On the contrary I found this book to be very readable. It starts from the very basic quantum mechanics of wave function, introduces density matrix, then semi-classical laser theory (EM field interaction), even discusses relaxation phenomenon (see the nice appendix on the quantum langevin equation!), then presents the real quantum theory of light interaction with matter. Without doubt this is a classic work, and should easily be accessible to upper-year undergraduates. There are no major difficulties.

the bowls is not the best newcomer

why write a book that is so hard to read? I think that my cleverness is not enough to subtend the hard math.