Lasers and Their Application to the Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensates

PRELIMS.pdf
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Author biography
		Richard A Dunlap
CH001.pdf
	Chapter 1 The basic physics of lasers
		1.1 Introduction
		1.2 Optical spectra
		1.3 Stimulated emission
		1.4 Creating a population inversion
		1.5 Laser modes and coherence
		1.6 Problems
		References and suggestions for further reading
CH002.pdf
	Chapter 2 Types of lasers I: conventional lasers
		2.1 Introduction
		2.2 Solid state lasers
		2.3 Second harmonic generation
		2.4 Gas lasers
		2.5 Dye lasers
		References and suggestions for further reading
CH003.pdf
	Chapter 3 Types of lasers II: semiconducting lasers
		3.1 Introduction
		3.2 Semiconductor physics
		3.3 Semiconducting junctions
		3.4 LEDs and semiconductor lasers
		3.5 Problems
		References and suggestions for further reading
CH004.pdf
	Chapter 4 Laser applications
		4.1 Introduction
		4.2 Communications
		4.3 Optical data discs
		4.4 Printers
			4.4.1 Raster image processing
			4.4.2 Charging
			4.4.3 Exposing
			4.4.4 Developing
			4.4.5 Transferring
			4.4.6 Fusing
			4.4.7 Cleaning
		4.5 Industrial applications
		4.6 Inertial confinement fusion
		References and suggestions for further reading
CH005.pdf
	Chapter 5 Fermions and bosons
		5.1 Introduction
		5.2 Fermions, bosons and the Pauli principle
		5.3 Distinguishable and indistinguishable particles and quantum states
		5.4 What is a boson and what is not a boson?
		5.5 Bose–Einstein condensation
		5.6 Problems
		References and suggestions for further reading
CH006.pdf
	Chapter 6 Cooling techniques
		6.1 Introduction
		6.2 Cooling techniques: the dilution refrigerator
		6.3 Cooling techniques—adiabatic demagnetization
		6.4 Laser cooling
		6.5 Sisyphus cooling
		6.6 Magneto-optic traps
		6.7 Forced evaporative cooling
		6.8 Problems
		References and suggestions for further reading
CH007.pdf
	Chapter 7 The Bose–Einstein condensate
		7.1 Introduction
		7.2 Creating and identifying a Bose–Einstein condensate
		7.3 Why is it useful?
		7.4 Problems
		References and suggestions for further reading