This brief video course is designed for engineers, scientists, medical personnel, managers, and others who work with lasers and/or fiberoptics, or who anticipate working with lasers and/or fiberoptics, yet have little or no background in laser or fiberoptic basics. The course focuses on fundamentals…
Topics covered: What determines the laser's power, intensity, energy, wavelength, spot size, collimation, tuning range, spectral width, efficiency, size and weight (continued); Generation of very short pulses; What are the problems with lasers
Topics covered: How a laser is constructed; What determines the laser's power, intensity, energy, wavelength, spot size, collimation, tuning range, spectral width, efficiency, size and weight
Topics covered: Why the interest in lasers; Unique properties of lasers; How such properties come about; Operation of a simple laser; Other issues/problems; Types of lasers; Basics of fiberoptics; Future
Topics covered: Laser transverse modes; Types of lasers
Topics covered: Why the interest in fiberoptics; How light propagates in an optical fiber; What determines the loss in a fiber; Single mode and multimode propagation; Single polarization fiber; Fiber amplifier operation; Fiberoptics applications