文档介绍：HANDBOOK
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'TICS AND PHOTONICS
Tunable
Lasers
HANDBOOK
OPTICS AND PHOTONICS
(formerly Quantum Electronics)
SERIES EDITORS
PAUL E LIAO
munications Research, Inc.
Red Bank, New Jersey
PAUL L. KELLEY
Lincoln Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lexington, Massachusetts
IVAN P. KAMINOW
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Holmdel, New Jersey
plete list of titles in this series appears at the end of this volume
Tunable
Lasers
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Edited by
F. J. Duarte
Eastman pany
Rochesrer, New York
ACADEMIC PRESS
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Duarte, F. J. (Frank J.)
Tunable lasers handbook / F. J. Duarte.
p. cm. - (Optics and photonics series)
Includes index.
ISBN 0-12-222695-X
1. Tunable lasers. I. Title. 11. Series.
1995
'6-dc20 95-8165
CIP
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
95 96 9798 99 00EB 9 8 7 6 5 4 321
Contents
Contributors xi
Preface xiii
1. Introduction 1
2. Tunable plementarity 4
3. GoalofThisBook 5
References 6
and Intracavity Dispersion
F. J. Duarte
1. Introduction 9
2. Dispersive Oscillator Configurations 10
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3. Physical Dimensions 15
4. Generalized Interference Equation 16
5. Dispersion Linewidth Equation 17
6. Beam Divergence 19
7. I