Advances in Lasers and Electro Optics

Nelson Costa, Adolfo Cartaxo, Nelson Costa, Adolfo Cartaxo

• Publisher: IntechOpen
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN:
  9789533070889
• eBook ISBN:
  9789535149026
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Optics & Light

Lasers and electro-optics is a field of research leading to constant breakthroughs. Indeed, tremendous advances have occurred in optical components and systems since the invention of laser in the late 50s, with applications in almost every imaginable field of science including control, astronomy, medicine, communications, measurements, etc. If we focus on lasers, for example, we find applications in quite different areas. We find lasers, for instance, in industry, emitting power level of several tens of kilowatts for welding and cutting; in medical applications, emitting power levels from few milliwatt to tens of Watt for various types of surgeries; and in optical fibre telecommunication systems, emitting power levels of the order of one milliwatt. This book is divided in four sections. The book presents several physical effects and properties of materials used in lasers and electro-optics in the first chapter and, in the three remaining chapters, applications of lasers and electro-optics in three different areas are presented

Table of contents

• Advances in Lasers and Electro Optics
• Contents
• Preface
• I Physical Effectsand Properties of Materials
• 1. Optical, Photoluminescent, and Photoconductive Properties of Novel High-Performance Organic Semiconductors
• 2. Nonlinear Optical Absorption of Organic Molecules for Applications in Optical Devices
• 3. Optical and Spectroscopic Properties of Polymer Layers Doped with Rare Earth Ions
• 4. Pure χ(3) Third-Harmonic Generation in Noncentrosymmetric Media
• 5. Semiconductor Ridge Microcavities Generating Counterpropagating Entangled Photons
• 6. Two-Wave Mixing in Broad-Area Semiconductor Amplifier
• 7. Frequency Conversion based on Three-Wave Parametric Solitons
• 8. Analogue of the Event Horizon in Fibers
• 9. Ultrafast Semiconductor Quantum Optics
• 10. Artificial Intelligence Tool and Electronic Systems Used to Develop Optical Applications
• 11. Theory of Unitary Spin Rotation and Spin State Tomography for a Single Electron and Two Electrons
• 12. Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Phase Conjugate Mirror and its Application to Coherent Beam Combined Laser System Producing a High Energy, High Power, High Beam Quality, and High Repetition Rate Output
• 13. The Intersubband Approach to Si-based Lasers
• II Applications in Communications
• 14. Evolution of Optical Sampling
• 15. NIR Single Photon Detectors with Upconversion Technology and its Applications in Quantum Communication Systems
• 16. All-Optical Signal Processing with Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers and Tunable Filters
• 17. Nonlinear Photonic Signal Processing Subsystems and Applications
• 18. Wavelength Conversion and 2R-Regeneration in Simple Schemes with Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers
• 19. Optical DQPSK Modulation Performance Evaluation
• 20. Fiber-to-the-Home System with Remote Repeater
• 21. Photonic Millimeter-wave Generation and Distribution Techniques for Millimeter/submillimeter Wave Radio Interferometer Telescope
• 22. Quantum Direct Communication
• III Applications in Imaging and Light Processing
• 23. Beating Difraction Limit using Dark States
• 245. The Physics of Ghost Imaging
• 25. High Performance Holographic Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal Systems Formed witht he Siloxane-containing Derivatives and Their Applications on Electro-optics
• 26. Multicolor Stationary Light
• 27. Fundamentals and Applications of Quantum Limited Optical Imaging
• 28. Broadband Light Generation in Raman-active Crystals Driven by Femtosecond Laser Fields
• 29. Holographic 3-D Displays - Electro-holography within the Grasp of Commercialization
• IV Applications in Biology and Medicine
• 30. Combining Optical Coherence Tomography with Fluorescence Imaging
• 31. Polarization-Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography in Cardiology
• 32. Two-photon Fluorescence Endomicroscopy
• 33. Quantitative Phase Imaging using Multi-wavelength Optical Phase Unwrapping
• 34. Synchrotron-Based Time-Resolved X-ray Solution Scattering (Liquidography)
• 35. Application of Ultrafast Laser Optoperforation for Plant Pollen Walls and Endothelial Cell Membranes