<br> <br> 1. Review of Electromagnetic Theory. <br> <br> <br> 2. Ray Tracing in an Optical System. <br> <br> <br> 3. Gaussian Beams. <br> <br> <br> 4. Guided Optical Beams. <br> <br> <br> 5. Optical Cavities. <br> <br> <br> 6. Resonant Optical Cavities. <br> <br> <br> 7. Atomic Radiation. <br> <br> <br> 8. Laser Oscillation and Amplification. <br> <br> <br> 9. General Characteristics of Lasers. <br> <br> <br> 10. Laser Excitation. <br> <br> <br> 11. Semiconductor Lasers. <br> <br> <br> 12. Advanced Electromagnetics of Lasers. <br> <br> <br> 13. Maxwell's Equations and the Classical Atom. <br> <br> <br> 14. Quantum Theory of the Field—Atom Interaction. <br> <br> <br> 15. Spectroscopy of Common Lasers. <br> <br> <br> 16. Detection of Optical Radiation. <br> <br> <br> 17. Gas—Discharge Phenomena. <br> <br> <br> Appendix I: An Introduction to Scattering Matrices. <br> <br> <br> Appendix II: “Detailed Balancing” or “Microscopic Reversibility.” <br> <br> <br> Appendix III: The Kramer—Kronig Relations. <br> <br> <br> Author Index. <br> <br> <br> Subject Index. <br>