Lasers
The Power and Precision of Light
1. Edition September 2011
XII, 265 Pages, Softcover
94 Pictures (44 Colored Figures)
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Learn all about laser technology and its countless applications in the fields of medicine and surgery, telecommunications, data communication and storage, ultrafast lasers, scanner, pointers, imaging, lithography and metrology, materials processing & machining, astronomy, etc.
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"Lasers" are active ingredients of our modern life, but they are inconspicuous as they often go unnoticed. This intuitive introductory guide will tell you all you want to know about laser technologies in very diverse fields from nuclear and particle physics to medicine, astronomy and ultra-precise metrology. The book is coherently focused on fundamentals, and is aimed to stimulate intuition about present and future applications, while unveiling the halo of myths around lasers. Written by reputable laser experts who think that science should be entertaining, this useful reference relies on simple analogies and illustrations rather than complex mathematics, and will be suitable for students and end-users of laser technologies, including novices.
1. A Scenic Route through the Laser
2. Laser Coherence at Home
3. The Laser in Medicine
4. Lasers in Industry
5. Laser Time Capsule
6. Light in Matter (Coherent Motion, Attosecond Science, Collision and Nuclear Physics with Lasers)
7. High Power Lasers (Tazer/Teaser)
8. Laser Sensors (Nanotechnology, Lithography, Laser Gyros, Nanoscopes)
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Ladan Arissian is Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico, USA. She was previously a Research Associate at the Physics Department of Texas A&M University, performing research in attosecond science at the National Research Council of Canada. She has obtained graduate degrees in various disciplines: an M.S. in Nuclear Engineering (Medical Imaging), and an M.S. in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, and she holds a Ph.D. in Optical Science and Engineering from the University of New Mexico (2007). Besides her interest in research, she has been involved in teaching from high school level physics to graduate courses in Optics. Dr. Arissian has published 40 articles and conference presentations, three book chapters and three patents in laser physics.
