Although
lasers are
becoming increasingly important in our high-technology environment,
many of the technicians and engineers who install, operate, and
maintain them have had little if any formal training in the field of
electro-optics. The result can be less
efficient usage of these important tools. Understanding
Laser Technology was designed to rectify the problem.
In a nutshell, the course answers the questions,
“How
does a laser work?”
“And
what’s it good for?”
The course uses extensive computer graphics so
students can see, for
example, energy flowing from the pump source to the population
inversion to the circulating power to the output beam. Anyone who
completes the course will have a good understanding of what a laser is,
and what it can and cannot do. He
or she will understand what types of laser to use for different
purposes, and how a laser can be modified to improve its performance in
a given application.
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