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About this book
The fiber laser, with its humble beginning in the late 1980s, has undergone tremendous development in the past decade or so, transforming itself from a research curiosity to a major force in modern manufacturing. Today, it is revolutionizing our economy by fundamentally changing the way we mark, machine, and process materials on an industrial scale. The recent development of high-power fiber lasers is also fundamentally shaping a wide range of other areas from physical sciences and medicine to geology and space exploration. In the past few years, the tactical deployment of direct energy weapons based on fiber lasers has become a reality.
The development of fiber lasers is rooted in a number of technical areas including optical materials, optical waveguide design, nonlinear optics, optical fiber fabrication, and optical characterization, in addition to optical fiber components, and fiber laser design and architecture. No comprehensive in-depth coverage of such diverse topical areas has appeared in a single book. Many important developments have taken place in the past decade in both academia and industry.
This book comprehensively covers the basics, technology and applications of fiber lasers including up-to-date developments in both academia and industry and is aimed to serve as both an introduction and research aid for graduate students, engineers, and scientists who are new to this field and also for veterans in the field
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- About the Authors
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Optical Fiber Waveguide Physics
- Chapter 3: Nonlinear Effects in Optical Fibers
- Chapter 4: Optical Fibers: Materials and Fabrication
- Chapter 5: Test and Measurement of Fibers
- Chapter 6: Components for Fiber Lasers
- Chapter 7: New and Emerging Fiber Technologies
- Chapter 8: Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers
- Chapter 9: CW Fiber Lasers Operating at 1 µm
- Chapter 10: Pulsed Fiber Lasers in the Picosecond and Nanosecond Regime
- Chapter 11: Ultrafast Fiber Lasers
- Chapter 12: Fiber Lasers at ~1.55 µm
- Chapter 13: Fiber Lasers at ~2 µm
- Chapter 14: Mid-Infrared Fiber Lasers
- Chapter 15: Supercontinuum Generation in Optical Fibers
- Chapter 16: Industrial Applications of Fiber Lasers
- Chapter 17: Medical Applications of Fiber Lasers
- Chapter 18: Military Applications of Lasers
- Chapter 19: Conclusions
- Appendix: Symbols and Abbreviations
- Index