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Lasers: front cover

Bench Degree
LASERS

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  1. Copyright
  2. On the Cover
  3. Before You Start
  4. Chapter 1: Light That Marches in Step
  5. Chapter 2: What a Beam Will Do to Your Eye, and How Fast
  6. Chapter 3: Absorb, Emit, and the Trick in Between
  7. Chapter 4: Population Inversion, and Why It Is Hard
  8. Chapter 5: The Cavity
  9. Chapter 6: What Sets the Beam
  10. Chapter 7: Gas, Crystal, Dye, Diode
  11. Chapter 8: Inside a Green Laser Pointer, Which Is Four Devices
  12. Chapter 9: Pulsed, and Where the Peak Power Comes From
  13. Chapter 10: Cutting, Welding, Marking
  14. Chapter 11: Measuring the World
  15. Chapter 12: Carrying Everything
  16. Chapter 13: Light That Makes Plasma
  17. Chapter 14: The Biggest Ones
  18. Chapter 15: Medicine, and the Ones Pointed at People
  19. Chapter 16: Measuring a Beam
  20. Chapter 17: What You Now Know
  21. Appendix A: The Bench
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