Dunlap R.A. Lasers and Their Application to the Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensates

Morgan & Claypool Publishers, IOP publ., 2019. — 103 p. — ISBN 978-1-64327-696-0.The first part of this book overviews the physics of lasers and describes some of the more common types of lasers and their applications.Applications of lasers include CD/DVD players, laser printers and fiber optic communication devices. Part II of this book describes the phenomenon of Bose-Einstein condensation. The experimental techniques used to create a Bose-Einstein condensate provide an interesting and unconventional application of lasers; that is, the cooling and confinement of a dilute gas at very low temperature.Lasers
The basic physics of lasers
Types of lasers I: conventional lasers
Types of lasers II: semiconducting lasers
Laser applications
Bose–Einstein condensates
Fermions and bosons
Cooling techniques
The Bose–Einstein condensate