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How light is confined and shaped.
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Silfvast was last revised significantly in the 1990s. He does not cover fiber lasers or quantum cascade lasers in depth. Use the PDF for fundamentals, but pair it with recent review papers from Optics Express or IEEE JQE for modern context. laser fundamentals silfvast pdf exclusive