Output coupling in optical cavities and lasers [[electronic resource] ] : a quantum theoretical approach / / Kikuo Ujihara

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910830282703321
• Autore: Ujihara Kikuo
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Weinheim, : Wiley, c2010
• ISBN: 1-282-55034-9; 9786612550348; 3-527-63049-X; 3-527-63050-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (410 p.)
• Disciplina: 621.366; 621.3661
• Soggetti: Lasers; Optical communications
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Output Coupling in Optical Cavities and Lasers; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 A One-Dimensional Optical Cavity with Output Coupling: Classical Analysis; 1.1 Boundary Conditions at Perfect Conductor and Dielectric Surfaces; 1.2 Classical Cavity Analysis; 1.2.1 One-Sided Cavity; 1.2.2 Symmetric Two-Sided Cavity; 1.3 Normal Mode Analysis: Orthogonal Modes; 1.3.1 One-Sided Cavity; 1.3.2 Symmetric Two-Sided Cavity; 1.4 Discrete versus Continuous Mode Distribution; 1.5 Expansions of the Normalization Factor; 1.6 Completeness of the Modes of the ''Universe''; 2 A One-Dimensional Optical Cavity with Output Coupling: Quantum Analysis2.1 Quantization; 2.2 Energy Eigenstates; 2.3 Field Commutation Relation; 2.4 Thermal Radiation and the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem; 2.4.1 The Density Operator of the Thermal Radiation Field; 2.4.2 The Correlation Function and the Power Spectrum; 2.4.3 The Response Function and the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem; 2.4.4 Derivation of the Langevin Noise for a Single Cavity Resonant Mode; 2.4.5 Excitation of the Cavity Resonant Mode by a Current Impulse; 2.5 Extension to an Arbitrarily Stratified ; Cavity; 2.5.1 Description of the Cavity Structure2.5.2 The Modes of the ''Universe''; 3 A One-Dimensional Quasimode Laser: General Formulation; 3.1 Cavity Resonant Modes; 3.2 The Atoms; 3.3 The Atom-Field Interaction; 3.4 Equations Governing the Atom-Field Interaction; 3.5 Laser Equation of Motion: Introducing the Langevin Forces; 3.5.1 The Field Decay; 3.5.2 Relaxation in Atomic Dipole and Atomic Inversion; 4 A One-Dimensional Quasimode Laser: Semiclassical and Quantum Analysis; 4.1 Semiclassical Linear Gain Analysis; 4.2 Semiclassical Nonlinear Gain Analysis; 4.3 Quantum Linear Gain Analysis; 4.4 Quantum Nonlinear Gain Analysis5 A One-Dimensional Laser with Output Coupling: Derivation of the Laser Equation of Motion; 5.1 The Field; 5.2 The Atoms; 5.3 The Atom-Field Interaction; 5.4 Langevin Forces for the Atoms; 5.5 Laser Equation of Motion for a Laser with Output Coupling; 6 A One-Dimensional Laser with Output Coupling: Contour Integral Method; 6.1 Contour Integral Method: Semiclassical Linear Gain Analysis; 6.2 Contour Integral Method: Semiclassical Nonlinear Gain Analysis; 6.3 Contour Integral Method: Quantum Linear Gain Analysis; 6.4 Contour Integral Method: Quantum Nonlinear Gain Analysis7 A One-Dimensional Laser with Output Coupling: Semiclassical Linear Gain Analysis; 7.1 The Field Equation Inside the Cavity; 7.2 Homogeneously Broadened Atoms and Uniform Atomic Inversion; 7.3 Solution of the Laser Equation of Motion; 7.3.1 The Field Equation for Inside the Cavity; 7.3.2 Laplace-Transformed Equations; 7.3.3 The Field Inside the Cavity; 7.3.4 The Field Outside the Cavity; 8 A One-Dimensional Laser with Output Coupling: Semiclassical Nonlinear Gain Analysis; 8.1 The Field Equation Inside the Cavity; 8.2 Homogeneously Broadened Atoms and Uniform Pumping
• Sommario/riassunto: Authored by one of the founders and major players in this field of research, this is a thorough and comprehensive approach to the quantum mechanical output coupling theory of lasers -- an important area of optical physics that has so far been neglected in the scientific literature. Clearly structured, the various sections cover one-dimensional optical cavity, laser, and microcavity laser with output coupling, atom-field interaction in a free-dimensional space, 3D analysis of spontaneous emission in a planar microcavity with output coupling, plus two-atom spontaneous emission.With numer