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Basic Laser Optics

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In this chapter the basic nature of light and its interaction with matter is described and the fundamentals of how such energy can be manipulated in direction and shape are presented.

“Boswell: “Then, Sir, what is poetry?””

Johnson: “Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is”

Boswell’s Life of Johnson.

Open the second shutter so that more light can come in”

Attributed as the dying words of Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832

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    Professor William M. Steen (James Bibby Professor of Engineering Manufacture)

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Steen, W.M. (1998). Basic Laser Optics. In: Laser Material Processing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3609-5_3

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