Solid-State Laser Engineering

Solid-State Laser Engineering is written from an industrialperspective and discusses in detail the characteristics,design, construction and practical problems of solid-statelasers. Emphasis is placed on engineering and practicalconsiderations, with a phenomenological treatment usingmodelsbeing preferred to abstract mathematical derivations. This new edition has been updated and revised to includeimportant developments, concepts and technologies that haveemerged since the publication of the first edition.