Chapter5:LASERS

Ex5.1:pg-164

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import math
#to calculate area of the spot on the moon
lamda=6*10**-7 #wavelength in m
d=2 #diameter in m
dtheta=lamda/d #angular spread in radian
D=4*10**8 #distance of the moon
A=(D*dtheta)**2
print "the areal spread is A=","{:.2e}".format(A),"m**2"
the areal spread is A= 1.44e+04 m**2

Ex5.2:pg-164

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import math
#to calculate angular spread of the beam
lamda=8*10**-7 #wavelength in m
d=5*10**-3 #aperture in m
dtheta=lamda/d 
print "the angular spread of the beam is dtheta=","{:.1e}".format(dtheta),"radian"
#to calculate the areal spread when it reaches the moon
D=4*10**8 #distance of the moon in m
A=(D*dtheta)**2
print "the areal spread is A=","{:.3e}".format(A),"m**2"
the angular spread of the beam is dtheta= 1.6e-04 radian
the areal spread is A= 4.096e+09 m**2

Ex5.3:pg-165

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import math
#to calculate number of oscillations corresponding to the coherence length
L=2.945*10**-2 #coherence length in m
lamda=5890*10**-10 #wavelength of sodium light in m
n=L/lamda
print "the number of oscillations is n=","{:.1e}".format(n),"unitless"
#to calculate coherence time
c=3*10**8 #light speed in m
Time=L/c #coherence time
print "the coherence Time=","{:.2e}".format(Time),"s"
the number of oscillations is n= 5.0e+04 unitless
the coherence Time= 9.82e-11 s

Ex5.4:pg-165

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import math
#to calculate area and intensity of the image
lamda=7200*10**-10 #wavelength in m
d=5*10**-3 #aperture in m
dtheta=lamda/d #angular spread in radian 
f=0.1 #focal length in m
arealspread=(dtheta*f)**2
print "areal spread =","{:.3e}".format(arealspread),"m**2"
power=50*10**-3
I=power/arealspread
print "intensity of the image is I=","{:.3e}".format(I),"watts/m**2"
areal spread = 2.074e-10 m**2
intensity of the image is I= 2.411e+08 watts/m**2