Lasers and Optical Instrumentation - Softcover

Lasers and Optical Instrumentation covers B.E., M.E., and M. Sc. (Electronics) degree courses. The text covers basic principles of lasers, types of lasers and their characteristics, laser applications in engineering and medicine. Further the book includes extensive coverage of optoelectronic devices, fibre optic communication and fibre optic sensors. The book includes many solved problems throughout the text to support the theoretical concepts and help in understanding of underlying principles. Review questions have been included at the end of each chapter to practise and self-study.Spread in Ten Chapters the book broadly covers: Characteristics of lasers, mode locking, Q-switching, powerful lasers, frequency stabilisation Overview of applications of lasers in science, engineering and medicine; reliability and safety aspectsLaser interferometer, laser strain gauges, laser Doppler velocimeter, laser ranging, mechanical cutting, welding, scribing, holographyApplications of Raman spectroscopy Application of laser devices, optical fibers etc., in fiber optic communicationsIntegrated optics, radiation source, transmission link, detector Fibre optical sensors, non-intrusively, displacements, pressure, temperature, high currents, angular velocityFuture perspectives - nanophotonics, quantum dots, photonic crystals

S. Nagabhushana obtained his Ph.D from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1976. He is a Fellow of Aeronautical Society of India. He has over 40 years of experience in Research and Development in the areas of Instrumentation and Data Acquisition Systems, mostly at the National Aeronautical Laboratories, Bangalore, India. He was heading the Aerospace Electronics and Systems Division at N.A.L till 2002. Later he became Professor and Head of the Department Instrumentation Technology at R.N. Shetty Institute of Technology. Subsequently he became the Head of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at RNSIT. Later he was the Professor and Head of Instrumentation Technology Department, Bangalore Institute of Technology (B.I.T), Bangalore till 2008. He participated in framing the new syllabus for V.T.U's instrumentation technology courses. He has taught optical instrumentation and optical communication systems for several years both at RNSIT and B.I.T. He has over 40 publications in national and international journals. N. Satyanarayana obtained his Bachelor Degree from Bangalore University and Masters in Technology in Instrumentation and Controls from Calicut Regional Engineering College. He has taught for more than 20 years a wide range of subjects including Optical Instrumentation. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Bangalore Institute of Technology, Visveswarapuram, Bangalore. He was a member of several Examination Boards of Bangalore University.