Handbook of Laser Technology and Applications

Laser Applications: Medical, Metrology and Communication (Volume Four)

Chunlei Guo, Chandra Subhash Singh, Chunlei Guo, Chandra Subhash Singh, Chunlei Guo

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9780367649173
• eBook ISBN: 9781000297027
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Physics
• Index: Physics

This comprehensive handbook gives a fully updated guide to lasers and laser technologies, including the complete range of their technical applications. This forth volume covers laser applications in the medical, metrology and communications fields.

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Editors
• Contributors
• 1. Lasers in Metrology: Section Introduction
• 2. Fundamental Length Metrology
• 3. Laser Velocimetry
• 4. Laser Vibrometers
• 5. Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometry (ESPI)
• 6. Optical Fibre Hydrophones
• 7. Laser Stabilization for Precision Measurements
• 8. Laser Cooling and Trapping
• 9. Precision Timekeeping: Optical Atomic Clocks
• 10. Optical Atomic Clock and Laser Applications to Length and Time Metrology
• 11. Gravitation Measurements with Laser Interferometry
• 12. Satellite Laser Ranging
• 13. Lasers in Medical: Section Introduction
• 14. Light–Tissue Interactions
• 15. Ophthalmic Laser Therapy and Surgery
• 16. Therapeutic Application: Refractive Surgery
• 17. Photodynamic Therapy
• 18. Therapeutic Applications: Thermal Treatment of Tumours
• 19. Therapeutic Applications: Dermatology—Selective Photothermolysis
• 20. Therapeutic Applications: Lasers in Vascular Surgery
• 21. Therapeutic Applications: Free-Electron Laser
• 22. Medical Diagnostics
• 23. Broad Bandwidth Light Sources in Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
• 24. Laser Applications in Biology and Biotechnology
• 25. Biomedical Laser Safety
• 26. Laser in Communications: Section Introduction
• 27. Fibre-to-the-Chip: Development of Vertical Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser Arrays Designed for Integration with VLSI Circuits
• 28. Advances in Laser Satellite Communications
• 29. Passive Silicon Photonic Integrated Components and Circuits for Optical Communications
• 30. Fibre-Optic Transmission Systems from Chip-to-Chip Interconnects to Trans-Oceanic Cables
• 31. Visible Light Communications and LiFi
• 32. Optical Data Storage
• Index