Handbook of Laser Technology and Applications
Lasers Applications: Materials Processing and Spectroscopy (Volume Three)
- 348 pages
- English
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Handbook of Laser Technology and Applications
Lasers Applications: Materials Processing and Spectroscopy (Volume Three)
About this book
This comprehensive handbook gives a fully updated guide to lasers and laser technologies, including the complete range of their technical applications. This 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.
Key Features:
ā¢ Offers a complete update of the original, bestselling work, including many brand-new chapters.
ā¢ 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.
ā¢ 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.
ā¢ 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.
ā¢ 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
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Editors
- Contributors
- 1. Laser Material Processing: Section Introduction
- 2. Laser Welding
- 3. High-Power Laser Cutting
- 4. Laser Marking
- 5. Laser Micromachining
- 6. Rapid Manufacturing
- 7. Laser Printing
- 8. 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing
- 9. Photolithography
- 10. Pulsed Laser Deposition of Thin Films
- 11. Surface Micro- and Nano-structuring on Metals with Femtosecond Lasers
- 12. Laser Ablation in Liquids for Nanoparticle Generation and Modification
- 13. Laser-Induced Forward Transfer
- 14. Laser Pyrolysis
- 15. Laser Spectroscopy: Section Introduction
- 16. Laser Raman Spectroscopy: Fundamentals to Applications
- 17. Laser Scattering Spectroscopy: Rayleigh Scattering and Dynamic Light Scattering
- 18. Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
- 19. Laser-Induced Fluorescence (LIF) for the Detection of Microbes
- 20. Harmonic GenerationāMaterials and Methods
- 21. Non-linear Optical Properties of Novel Nanomaterials
- 22. Lasers in Imaging: Section Introduction
- 23. Lasers in Microscopy
- 24. Laser-based Coherent Diffractive Imaging
- 25. High-Speed Imaging
- 26. Ultrafast Optical Imaging
- 27. Transient Absorption Microscopy Measurements of Single Nanostructures
- Index