Rya Laser Handbook

This is the only navigation exercise book suitable for RYA Training courses. It is the only book that uses the new RYA Training charts used in all RYA navigation courses. Suitable for anyone taking a Day Skipper or Yachtmaster course. Questions start for anyone new to navigation and become progressivly more

Everyone who goes to sea understands the importance of the weather and the necessity of obtaining an accurate forecast. Good skippers study the weather and plan their trips to take maximum advantage of present and forecast conditions.

Filled with full-color images, High-Power Laser Handbook offers comprehensive details on the latest advances in high-power laser development and applications. Performance parameters for each major class of lasers are described.

Filled with full-color images, High-Power Laser Handbook offers comprehensive details on the latest advances in high-power laser development and applications. Performance parameters for each major class of lasers are described. The book covers high-power gas, chemical, and free-electron lasers and then discusses semiconductor diode lasers, along with the associated technologies of packaging, reliability, and beam shaping and delivery. Current research and development in solid-state lasers is described as well as scaling approaches for high CW powers, high pulse energies, and high peak powers. This authoritative work also addresses the emergence of fiber lasers and concludes by reviewing various methods for beam combining.