This comprehensive handbook gives a fully updated guide to lasers and laser systems, including the complete range of their technical applications. The first volume outlines the fundamental components of lasers, their properties and working principles.
This comprehensive handbook gives a fully updated guide to lasers and laser systems, including the complete range of their technical applications. The first volume outlines the fundamental components of lasers, their properties and working principles. The second volume gives exhaustive coverage of all major categories of lasers, from solid-state and semiconductor diode to fiber, waveguide, gas, chemical, and dye lasers. The third volume covers modern applications in engineering and technology, including all new and updated case studies spanning telecommunications and data storage to medicine, optical measurement, defense and security, nanomaterials processing and characterization.
Contents
Preface......................................................................
.............................................................................
.......................................... ix
Editors......................................................................
.............................................................................
........................................... xi
Contributors.................................................................
.............................................................................
.....................................xiii
1. Solid-State Lasers: Section
Introduction.................................................................
............................................................. 1
R. C. Powell
2. Transition Metal Ion
LasersCr3+..................................................................
..................................................................... 3
Georges Boulon
3. Transition Metal Ion Lasers Other Than
Cr3+.........................................................................
.......................................... 25
Stephen A. Payne
4. Rare-Earth Ion
LasersNd3+..................................................................
...........................................................................
35
A. I. Zagumennyi, V. A. Mikhailov, and I. A. Shcherbakov
5. Rare-Earth IonsMiscellaneous: Ce3+, U3+, Divalent,
etc..........................................................................
..................... 55
Gregory J. Quarles
6. Ti:sapphire: Material, Lasers and
Amplifiers...................................................................
................................................ 69
Peter F. Moulton, Alan R. Fry, and Peter Fendel
7. Lanthanide Series
LasersNear-Infrared.........................................................
............................................................... 83
Norman P. Barnes
8. Lasers Based on Non-Linear
Effects......................................................................
............................................................101
Fabienne Pellé
9. Solid-State Raman
Lasers.......................................................................
...........................................................................
127
T. T. Basiev and R. C. Powell
10. Colour Centre
Lasers.......................................................................
.............................................................................
.......151
T. T. Basiev, P. G. Zverev, and S. B. Mirov
11. Laser Diodes: Section
Introduction.................................................................
...................................................................167
Ian White
12. Basic Principles of Laser
Diodes.......................................................................
................................................................. 169
Niloy K. Dutta
13. Spectral Control in Laser
Diodes.......................................................................
............................................................... 195
Markus-Christian Amann
14. High-Speed Laser
Diodes.......................................................................
.............................................................................
211
Peter P. Vasilev
15. High-Power Laser Diodes and Laser Diode
Arrays.......................................................................
................................. 225
Peter Unger
16. Visible Laser Diodes: Properties of IIIV Red-Emitting Laser
Diodes.......................................................................
. 235
Peter Blood
17. Visible Laser Diodes: Properties of Blue Laser
Diodes.......................................................................
............................ 251
Robert Martin
18. Long-Wavelength Laser
Diodes.......................................................................
.................................................................. 263
S. Anders, G. Strasser, and E. Gornik
19. Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Amplifiers for Switching and Signal
Processing................................................. 273
Hitoshi Kawaguchi
20. Silicon-Based
Lasers.......................................................................
.............................................................................
....... 287
Qiang Li, Bei Shi, and Yu Han
21. Gas/Vapour Lasers: Section
Introduction.................................................................
....................................................... 299
Julian Jones
22. Atomic Gas Lasers: HeliumNeon
Lasers.......................................................................
................................................. 301
Alan D. White and Lisa Tsufura
23. HeliumCadmium
Laser........................................................................
............................................................................
309
William T. Silfvast
24. Copper and Gold Vapour
Lasers.......................................................................
.................................................................315
Colin Webb
25. Ion Lasers: Argon and Krypton Ion
Lasers.......................................................................
.............................................. 325
Malcolm H. Dunn and Tony Gutierrez
26. Carbon Dioxide
Lasers.......................................................................
.............................................................................
... 337
Denis R. Hall
27. Excimer Lasers: F2, N2 and H2
Lasers.......................................................................
....................................................... 365
W. J. Witteman
28. High-Brightness Excimer Lasers and Extreme Conditions They
Produce...................................................................
403
Sándor Szatmári
29. Optically Pumped Mid-IR Lasers: NH3,
C2H2.........................................................................
.........................................419
Mary S. Tobin
30. Far-IR Lasers: HCN,
H2O..........................................................................
........................................................................ 433
Wilhelm Prettl
31. Diode-Pumped Alkali Lasers
(DPALs)......................................................................
....................................................... 441
Boris Zhdanov and Randall Knize
32. Chemical Lasers:Section
Introduction.................................................................
............................................................ 449
Julian Jones
33. Chemical Lasers:
COIL.........................................................................
.............................................................................
451
B. D. Barmashenko and S. Rosenwaks
34. Chemical Lasers:
HF/DF........................................................................
............................................................................
467
Lee H. Sentman
35. Fiber and Waveguide Lasers: Section
Introduction.................................................................
....................................... 475
R. C. Powell
36. Fibre
Lasers.......................................................................
.............................................................................
..................... 477
Wei Shi, Shijie Fu, and Qiang Fang
37. High-Power Fibre
Lasers.......................................................................
.............................................................................
489
Christophe A. Codemard and M. N. Zervas
38. Raman Fibre
Lasers.......................................................................
.............................................................................
....... 501
Igor Bufetov and Sergey Babin
39. Solitons and Dissipative Solitons for Ultrafast
Lasers.......................................................................
..............................521
Ph Grelu
40. Bismuth-Doped Fibre Lasers and Optical
Amplifiers...................................................................
.................................. 535
Evgeny Dianov
41. Erbium and Other Doped Fibre
Amplifiers...................................................................
.................................................. 557
Kevin Cordina
42. High-Power Planar Waveguide
Lasers.......................................................................
...................................................... 571
J. I. Mackenzie and D. P. Shepherd
43. MEMS-Based Swept Laser
Source.......................................................................
............................................................ 585
John O. Gerguis, Yasser M. Sabry, Haitham Omran, and Diaa Khalil
44. Dye Lasers: Section
Introduction.................................................................
..................................................................... 599
Colin Webb
45. Liquid
Lasers.......................................................................
.............................................................................
................... 601
David H. Titterton
46. Solid-State Dye
Lasers.......................................................................
.............................................................................
.... 623
David H. Titterton
47. Other Lasers: Section
Introduction.................................................................
................................................................. 637
Colin Webb, Subhash C. Singh, and Chunlei Guo
48. Free-Electron Lasers and Synchrotron Light
Sources......................................................................
............................. 639
P. G. OShea and J. B. Murphy
49. X-Ray
Lasers.......................................................................
.............................................................................
.................... 653
Jorge J. Rocca
50. Terahertz
Lasers.......................................................................
.............................................................................
............. 671
Taiichi Otsuji
Index........................................................................
.............................................................................
........................................ 685
Chunlei Guo is a Professor in The Institute of Optics and Physics at the University of Rochester. Before joining the Rochester faculty in 2001, he earned a PhD in Physics from the University of Connecticut and did his postdoctoral training at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His research is in studying femtosecond laser interactions with matter, spanning from atoms and molecules to solid materials. His research at University of Rochester has led to the discoveries of a range of highly functionalized materials through femtosecond laser processing, including the so-called black and colored metals and superhydrophillic and superhydrophobic surfaces. These innovations may find a broad range of applications, and have also been extensively featured by the media, including multiple New York Times articles. Lately, he devoted a significant amount of efforts to developing technologies for global sanitation by working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Through this mission, he visited Africa multiple times to understand humanitarian issues. To further expand global collaboration under the Gates project, he helped establish an international laboratory at Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics, and Physics in China. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Optical Society of America, and International Academy of Photonics & Laser Engineering. He has authored about 300 referred journal articles.
Subhash C. Singh is a scientist at the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester and an Associate Professor at Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics, and Physics. Dr. Singh earned a Ph.D. in Physics from University of Allahabad, India in 2009. Prior to working with the Guo Lab, he was IRCSETEMPOWER Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Dublin City University, Ireland for 2 years and a DST-SERB Young Scientist at University of Allahabad for 3 years. He has more than 10 years of research experience in the fields of laser-matter interaction, plasma, nanomaterial processing, spectroscopy, energy applications, plasmonics, and photonics. He has published more than 100 research articles in reputable refereed journals and conference proceedings. His past editor experience includes serving as the main editor for Wiley-VCH book Nanomaterials; Processing and Characterization with Lasers and guest editor for special issues of a number of journals.
