Lasers and Electro-optics: Fundamentals and Engineering

Starting from Einstein's coefficients in Chapter 1 for stimulated emission this book tries to cover optical system, resonators, Solid-state Lasers, Gas Lasers and so on. Later Chapters deals with Coherence Theory, Laser Applications including holography and Laser Plasma generation. As a Laser Engineer I recommend this book for its efforts in trying to cover all the subfields in Lasers starting from the very beginning and taking complex issues one by one in a systematic way. Professor Davis surely deserves much kudos for writing materials in a easy and reader friendly way. Overall a very good intermediate level text on Laser!

This book is the kind of book that I have been looking for in the subject of laser. The book is very clear and well-written about the material. This book contains not many problems, but the problems in the book are mostly good problems. This book is appropiate for the advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in the electro-optics, photonics areas. The backgrounds necessary for this book are very flexible, since the author explain most of the idea behind the quantum mechanics that he used in the text. But the knowledge of electromagnetics and quantum mechanics would be helpful, not necessary.

As a graduate student majoring optics, this is the kind of book that I always want to keep near me. This book combines important topics of laser, electro-optics, and more in a well organized manner. So anyone involved in laser, eletro-optics, and photinics can refer to only one book for the basic principles. The math is not so difficult and every derivation is worked out quite thoroughly. There are many useful examples of latest systems, elements too. However, the early part covering laser is not so detailed as the other laser books, although the second half dealing with electro-optics is excellent in every aspect. I had a quite hard time with Yariv's book of optical electronics, but feel pretty comfortable with this book. Highly recommendable to anyone majoring the field of laser, photonics.

This book will suffice for an introduction into lasers.Things I like:--It covers basic lasers an engineer will likely work with (gas, solid state, and fiber), cavity design (matrix method), nonlinear processes, and coherence.-- Each chapter contains ample references for further readingThings I dislike:--This is a paperback bound book and it shouldn't be. The spine shows damage after a single semester of use. I cannot imagine how this book would hold up over a period of years of continued use.--This book is hard to pick up a given section and know what the variables mean.-- The diagrams in this book are typically super simplified and not frequent enough.

I highly recommend this text. As a student under Prof Davis in 1995-96 I used his text extensively and found it to be extremely well designed and though in all regards.

You have no use for this book. It lacks consistent notation and clear organization. I strongly recommend you use Verdeyen's "Laser Electronics" or Siegman's "Lasers" instead.

This book is intended for a graduate-level course on lasers. While covering a number of subjects in depth, there are a large number of mistakes. There has been two reprintings with corrections, so I would hate to have seen the first printing. There are many mistakes in the equations (usually easily ferreted out) as well as in the problems. The problems can be very frustrating as they are often as clear as mud. Overall however, the book does do a good job of covering most topics, but if you are looking for a better lasers book, I would go with Verdeyen's Laser Electronics (ISBN:013706666X) or Siegman's Lasers (ISBN: 0935702113)