Featuring updates and additions, this book presents a practical and complete office/laboratory companion for the daily work with optical instruments and lasers. It includes over 120 comprehensive tables with properties of optical materials and light sources.

This new edition features numerous updates and additions. Especially 4 new chapters on Fiber Optics, Integrated Optics, Frequency Combs and Interferometry reflect the changes since the first edition.

In addition, major complete updates for the chapters: Optical Materials and Their Properties, Optical Detectors, Nanooptics, and Optics far Beyond the Diffraction Limit.

Features
Contains over 1000 two-color illustrations.
Includes over 120 comprehensive tables with properties of optical materials and light sources.
Emphasizes physical concepts over extensive mathematical derivations.
Chapters with summaries, detailed index
Delivers a wealth of up-to-date references.

Presents a most practical and complete office/laboratory companion for the daily work with optical instruments and lasers New edition of appraised all-in-one desk reference Four new chapters on Fiber Optics, Integrated Optics, Frequency Combs and Interferometry

Autorentext

Frank Träger is a Full Professor of Experimental Physics and Head of the Interdisciplinary Center for Nanostructure Science and Technology CINSaT at the University of Kassel, Germany.

Frank Träger received the diploma in physics from the University of Heidelberg where he continued his research to earn a Ph.D. in physics in 1974. Following his habilitation, he joined the IBM Almaden Research Center in San José, California, as a guest scientist from 1981 to 1982 and for several sabbaticals until 1986.

Since 1986, he has been an associate Professor at the Institute of Physics of the University of Heidelberg, and since September 1990 a full Professor in the Physics Department of the University of Kassel, Germany. His current research interests are the preparation and characterization of metal nanoparticles and self-assembled functional films, nonlinear optical phenomena, the study and application of nonthermal desorption and ablation phenomena, ultrafast electrondynamics on the femtosecond timescale and, last but not least, imaging of DNA by scanning probe microscopies. In his experiments, tunable laser radiation plays an essential role.

Frank Träger serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Applied Physics B Lasers and Optics published by Springer-Verlag. He is a Corresponding Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and of acatech, Konvent für Technikwissenschaften der Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften e.V.

Klappentext
The Springer Handbook of Lasers and Optics provides fast, up-to-date, comprehensive and authoritative coverage of the wide fields of optics and lasers. It is written for daily use in the office or laboratory and offers explanatory text, data, and references needed for anyone working with lasers and optical instruments.This second edition features numerous updates and additions. Especially four new chapters on Fiber Optics, Integrated Optics, Frequency Combs, and Interferometry reflect the major changes. In addition, chapters Optical Materials and Their Properties, Optical Detectors, Nanooptics, and Optics far Beyond the Diffraction Limit have been thoroughly revised and updated.The now 25 chapters are grouped into four parts which cover basic principles and materials, fabrication and properties of optical components, coherent and incoherent light sources, and, finally, selected applications and special fields such as terahertz photonics, x-ray optics and holography. Each chapter is authored by respected experts and contains the basic principles, applications and latest information in the field. Among the subjects covered are geometrical and wave optics, linear and nonlinear optics, optical materials and components, detectors, incoherent and all essential types of coherent light sources, generation of ultrashort pulses, spectroscopic techniques, laser safety as well as current trends in such modern areas as quantum optics, femto- and attosecond physics, and nanooptics as well as optics beyond the diffraction limit.The handbook is written and compiled for physicists, engineers and other scientists at universities and in industrial research who develop and use optical techniques.With a Foreword by Nobel Laureate T.W. Hänsch.Key Topics Basic optics principles Coherent and incoherent light sources Spectroscopies and attophysics Optical materials and their properties Fabrication and properties of optical components Fiber optics, integrated optics, frequency combs, and interferometry Selected applications and special fields: Nanooptics, quantum optics, x-ray optics, terahertz photonics, and holographyFeatures Contains over 1000 two-color illustrations Includes over 120 comprehensive tables with properties of optical materials and light sources Emphasizes physical concepts over extensive mathematical derivations. Chapters with summaries, detailed index Delivers a wealth of up-to-date references.

Inhalt

Foreword by T.W. Hänsch.- Part A: Basic Principles and Materials: Properties of Light.- Geometrical Optics.- Wave Optics.- Nonlinear Optics.- Optical Materials and Their Properties.- Thin Films.- Part B: Fabrication and Properties of Optical Components: Optical Design and Design Software.- Advanced Optical Components.- Optical Detectors.- Part C: Coherent and Incoherent Light Sources: Incoherent Light Sources.- Lasers and Coherent Light Sources.- Short and Ultrashort Laser Pulses.- Part D: Selected Applications and Special Fields: Optical and Spectroscopic Techniques.- Fiber optics.- Integrated Optics.-Interferometry.- Frequency Combs.- Quantum Optics.- Nanooptics.- Optics Far Beyond the Diffraction Limit.- Terahertz Photonics.- X-Ray Optics.- Atmospheric Optics.- Holography and Optical Data Storage.- Laser Safety.