"Intended as a handbook for researchers, graduate students, and lidar users, Elastic Lidar: Theory, Practice, and Analysis Methods bridges a twenty-year gap in the lidar literature and brings its subject into the twenty-first century. Focusing on elastic lidars, the most common …
"The clear explanations, worked examples, and many homework problems make this book eminently suitable for undergraduate and first-year graduate students in science and engineering who are taking courses on lasers. The summaries of key types of lasers, the use of many unique the…
Renewed interest in laser communication systems has sparked development of useful new analytic models. This book discusses optical scintillation and its impact on system performance in free-space optical communication and laser radar applications, with a detailed look at propaga…
by Letokhov, V. S., Meystre, Pierre, Franken, Peter
fromLaser science and technology
The birth of quantum electronics in the middle of the twentieth century, and the subsequent discovery of the laser, led to new trends in physics and a number of photonic technologies. This volume is dedicated to Peter Franken, a pioneer of nonlinear optics, and includes papers b…
