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.
Preface |
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Editors |
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Contributors |
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1 Solid-State Lasers: Section Introduction |
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2 Transition Metal Ion Lasers---Cr3+ |
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3 | (22) |
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3 Transition Metal Ion Lasers Other Than Cr3+ |
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25 | (10) |
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4 Rare-Earth Ion Lasers---Nd3+ |
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35 | (20) |
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5 Rare-Earth Ions---Miscellaneous: Ce3+, U3+, Divalent, etc |
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55 | (14) |
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6 Thsapphire: Material, Lasers and Amplifiers |
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69 | (14) |
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7 Lanthanide Series Lasers---Near-Infrared |
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83 | (18) |
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8 Lasers Based on Non-Linear Effects |
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101 | (26) |
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9 Solid-State Raman Lasers |
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127 | (24) |
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151 | (16) |
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11 Laser Diodes: Section Introduction |
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167 | (2) |
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12 Basic Principles of Laser Diodes |
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169 | (26) |
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13 Spectral Control in Laser Diodes |
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195 | (16) |
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14 High-Speed Laser Diodes |
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211 | (14) |
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15 High-Power Laser Diodes and Laser Diode Arrays |
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225 | (10) |
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16 Visible Laser Diodes: Properties of III-V Red-Emitting Laser Diodes |
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235 | (16) |
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17 Visible Laser Diodes: Properties of Blue Laser Diodes |
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251 | (12) |
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18 Long-Wavelength Laser Diodes |
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263 | (10) |
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19 Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Amplifiers for Switching and Signal Processing |
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273 | (14) |
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287 | (12) |
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21 Gas/Vapour Lasers: Section Introduction |
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299 | (2) |
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22 Atomic Gas Lasers: Helium-Neon Lasers |
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301 | (8) |
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23 Metal vapor Lasers: Helium-Cadmium Laser |
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309 | (6) |
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24 Copper and Gold Vapour Lasers |
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315 | (10) |
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25 Ion Lasers: Argon and Krypton Ion Lasers |
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325 | (12) |
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337 | (28) |
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27 Excimer Lasers: F2, N2 and H2 Lasers |
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365 | (38) |
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28 High-Brightness Excimer Lasers and Extreme Conditions They Produce |
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403 | (16) |
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29 Optically Pumped Mid-IR Lasers: NH3, C2H2 |
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419 | (14) |
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30 Far-IR Lasers: HCN, H2O |
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433 | (8) |
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31 Diode-Pumped Alkali Lasers (DPALs) |
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441 | (8) |
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32 Chemical Lasers: Section Introduction |
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449 | (2) |
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451 | (16) |
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34 Chemical Lasers: HF/DF |
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467 | (8) |
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35 Fiber and Waveguide Lasers: Section Introduction |
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475 | (2) |
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477 | (12) |
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37 High-Power Fibre Lasers |
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489 | (12) |
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501 | (20) |
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39 Solitons and Dissipative Solitons for Ultrafast Lasers |
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521 | (14) |
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40 Bismuth-Doped Fibre Lasers and Optical Amplifiers |
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535 | (22) |
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41 Erbium and Other Doped Fibre Amplifiers |
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557 | (14) |
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42 High-Power Planar Waveguide Lasers |
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571 | (14) |
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43 MEMS-Based Swept Laser Source |
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585 | (14) |
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44 Dye Lasers: Section Introduction |
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599 | (2) |
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601 | (22) |
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46 Solid-State Dye Lasers |
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47 Other Lasers: Section Introduction |
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637 | (2) |
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48 Free-Electron Lasers and Synchrotron Light Sources |
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639 | (14) |
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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.