Textbook:
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<br>"Principles of lasers" by  Orazio Svelto.
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<br>e-book can be accessed through NTHU library.
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<br>1. Photons and Radiation
<br>    (1) Waves and Modes
<br>    (2) Planck's Theory of Blackbody Radiation
<br>    (3) Einstein's Theory of Stimulated Emission
<br>    (4) Laser Rate Equations
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<br>2. Quantum Theory of Radiation
<br>    (1) Wave Mechanics
<br>    (2) Simple Harmonic Oscillator
<br>    (3) Quantization of Mechanical Waves
<br>    (4) Quantization of Electromagnetic Waves
<br>    (5) Coherent States 
<br>    (6) Driven Harmonic Oscillators 
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<br>3. Interaction between Radiation and Matter
<br>    (1) Time-Dependent First-Order Perturbation
<br>    (2) Emission and Absorption of Photons by Atoms 
<br>    (3) Dipole Approximation
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<br>4. Amplification of Light
<br>    (1) Density Matrix
<br>    (2) Atomic Susceptibility
<br>    (3) Amplification of Light
<br>    (4) Laser Rate Equations
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<br>5. Optical Resonators
<br>    (1) Paraxial Approximation and Gaussian Beams 
<br>    (2) Optical Resonators with Curved Mirrors
<br>    (3) Transverse Degrees of Freedom 
<br>    (4) Propagation of Gaussian Beams
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<br>6. Quantum Theory of Lasers
<br>    (1) Oscillation in a Laser Cavity
<br>    (2) Laser Power and Frequency
<br>    (3) Laser Bandwidth
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<br>7. Common Lasers
<br>    (1) He-Ne Laser
<br>    (2) CO2 Laser
<br>    (3) Excimer Lasers
<br>    (4) Solid-State Lasers
<br>    (5) Semiconductor Lasers
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<br>8. Coherent Interaction with Two-Level Systems
<br>    (1) Bloch Equations
<br>    (2) Rabi Oscillation
<br>    (3) Free Induction Decay
<br>    (4) Photon Echo
<br>    (5) Self-Induced Transparency
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<br>9. Laser Dynamics
<br>    (1) Relaxation Oscillation
<br>    (2) Q-Switching
<br>    (3) Mode-Locking
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