Textbook:

"Principles of lasers" by Orazio Svelto.

e-book can be accessed through NTHU library.
 
1. Photons and Radiation
(1) Waves and Modes
(2) Planck's Theory of Blackbody Radiation
(3) Einstein's Theory of Stimulated Emission
(4) Laser Rate Equations
 
2. Quantum Theory of Radiation
(1) Wave Mechanics
(2) Simple Harmonic Oscillator
(3) Quantization of Mechanical Waves
(4) Quantization of Electromagnetic Waves
(5) Coherent States
(6) Driven Harmonic Oscillators

3. Interaction between Radiation and Matter
(1) Time-Dependent First-Order Perturbation
(2) Emission and Absorption of Photons by Atoms
(3) Dipole Approximation

4. Amplification of Light
(1) Density Matrix
(2) Atomic Susceptibility
(3) Amplification of Light
(4) Laser Rate Equations

5. Optical Resonators
(1) Paraxial Approximation and Gaussian Beams
(2) Optical Resonators with Curved Mirrors
(3) Transverse Degrees of Freedom
(4) Propagation of Gaussian Beams

6. Quantum Theory of Lasers
(1) Oscillation in a Laser Cavity
(2) Laser Power and Frequency
(3) Laser Bandwidth
 
7. Common Lasers
(1) He-Ne Laser
(2) CO2 Laser
(3) Excimer Lasers
(4) Solid-State Lasers
(5) Semiconductor Lasers
 
8. Coherent Interaction with Two-Level Systems
(1) Bloch Equations
(2) Rabi Oscillation
(3) Free Induction Decay
(4) Photon Echo
(5) Self-Induced Transparency
 
9. Laser Dynamics
(1) Relaxation Oscillation
(2) Q-Switching
(3) Mode-Locking