LASERS AND THEIR APPLICATION IN THE COOLING, TRAPPING, AND BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES OF... ATOMS, SECOND EDITION.

PRELIMS.pdf Preface Author biography Richard A Dunlap CH001.pdf Chapter 1 The basic physics of lasers 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Optical spectra 1.3 Stimulated emission 1.4 Creating a population inversion 1.5 Laser modes and coherence References and suggestions for further reading CH002.pdf Chapter 2 Conventional lasers 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Solid-state lasers 2.3 Harmonic generation 2.4 Gas lasers 2.5 Dye lasers 2.6 Excimer lasers References and suggestions for further reading CH003.pdf Chapter 3 Semiconducting lasers 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Semiconductor physics 3.3 Semiconducting junctions 3.4 Light-emitting diodes and semiconductor lasers References and suggestions for further reading CH004.pdf Chapter 4 Laser applications 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Communications 4.3 Optical data disks 4.4 Printers 4.4.1 Raster image processing 4.4.2 Charging 4.4.3 Exposing 4.4.4 Developing 4.4.5 Transferring 4.4.6 Fusing 4.4.7 Cleaning 4.5 Industrial applications 4.6 Photolithography 4.6.1 Preparation of the wafer 4.6.2 Application of photoresist 4.6.3 Alignment of the photomask 4.6.4 Exposure to UV light 4.6.5 Development and removal of photoresist exposed to UV light 4.6.6 Etching of exposed oxide 4.6.7 Removal of remaining photoresist 4.7 Inertial confinement fusion References and suggestions for further reading CH005.pdf Chapter 5 Laser cooling of atoms 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The dilution refrigerator 5.3 Adiabatic demagnetization 5.4 Doppler cooling 5.5 Sisyphus cooling 5.6 Other approaches to cooling below the Doppler limit 5.6.1 Anti-Stokes cooling 5.6.2 Dark-state cooling References and suggestions for further reading CH006.pdf Chapter 6 Laser trapping of atoms 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Optical traps 6.3 Optical tweezers 6.4 Magnetic traps 6.5 Magneto-optical traps and forced evaporative cooling References and suggestions for further reading CH007.pdf Chapter 7 Fermions and bosons 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Fermions, bosons, and the Pauli principle 7.3 Distinguishable and indistinguishable particles and quantum states 7.4 What is a boson and what is not a boson References and suggestions for further reading CH008.pdf Chapter 8 Bose–Einstein condensates 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Bose–Einstein condensation 8.3 Creating and identifying a Bose–Einstein condensate 8.4 Microgravity Bose–Einstein condensate experiments 8.5 Quasiparticle Bose–Einstein condensates 8.5.1 Bose–Einstein condensation of excitons 8.5.2 Bose–Einstein condensation of polaritons 8.6 Why is it useful? References and suggestions for further reading CH009.pdf Chapter 9 Other applications of laser cooling and trapping 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Atomic fountains 9.3 Optical lattices 9.4 Optical lattice clocks 9.4.1 The tuning of the clock laser 9.4.2 Counting the clock laser oscillations 9.5 The applications of optical lattice clocks References and suggestions for further reading