
Handbook of Laser Technology and Applications
Lasers: Principles and Operations (Volume One)
- 556 pages
- English
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Handbook of Laser Technology and Applications
Lasers: Principles and Operations (Volume One)
About this book
This comprehensive handbook gives a fully updated guide to lasers and laser technologies, including the complete range of their technical applications. The first volume outlines the fundamental components of lasers, their properties, and working principles.
Key Features:
• Offers a complete update of the original, bestselling work, including many brand-new chapters.
• Deepens the introduction to fundamentals, from laser design and fabrication to host matrices for solid-state lasers, energy level diagrams, hosting materials, dopant energy levels, and lasers based on nonlinear effects.
• Covers new laser types, including quantum cascade lasers, silicon-based lasers, titanium sapphire lasers, terahertz lasers, bismuth-doped fiber lasers, and diode-pumped alkali lasers.
• Discusses the latest applications, e.g., lasers in microscopy, high-speed imaging, attosecond metrology, 3D printing, optical atomic clocks, time-resolved spectroscopy, polarization and profile measurements, pulse measurements, and laser-induced fluorescence detection.
• Adds new sections on laser materials processing, laser spectroscopy, lasers in imaging, lasers in environmental sciences, and lasers in communications.
This handbook is the ideal companion for scientists, engineers, and students working with lasers, including those in optics, electrical engineering, physics, chemistry, biomedicine, and other relevant areas.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Editors
- Contributors
- 1. Laser Principle: Section Introduction
- 2. Basic Laser Principles
- 3. Interference and Polarization
- 4. Introduction to Numerical Analysis for Laser Systems
- 5. Optical Cavities: Free-Space Laser Resonators
- 6. Optical Cavities: Waveguide Laser Resonators
- 7. Nonlinear Optics
- 8. Laser Beam Control
- 9. Optical Detection and Noise
- 10. Laser Safety
- 11. Optical Components: Section Introduction
- 12. Optical Components
- 13. Optical Control Elements
- 14. Adaptive Optics and Phase Conjugate Reflectors
- 15. Opto-mechanical Parts
- 16. Optical Pulse Generation: Section Introduction
- 17. Quasi-cw and Modulated Beams
- 18. Short Pulses
- 19. Ultrashort Pulses
- 20. Mode-locking Techniques and Principles
- 21. Attosecond Metrology
- 22. Chirped Pulse Amplification
- 23. Optical Parametric Devices
- 24. Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification (OPCPA)
- 25. Laser Beam Delivery: Section Introduction
- 26. Basic Principles
- 27. Free-space Optics
- 28. Optical Waveguide Theory
- 29. Fibre Optic Beam Delivery
- 30. Positioning and Scanning Systems
- 31. Laser Beam Measurement: Section Introduction
- 32. Beam Propagation
- 33. Laser Beam Management Detectors
- 34. Laser Energy and Power Measurement
- 35. Irradiance and Phase Distribution Measurement
- 36. The Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses
- Index