This comprehensive handbook gives a fully updated guide to lasers and laser systems, including the complete range of their technical applications. The first volume outlines the fundamental components of lasers, their properties and working principles. The second volume gives exhaustive coverage of all major categories of lasers, from solid-state and semiconductor diode to fiber, waveguide, gas, chemical, and dye lasers. The 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.
Table of Contents:
Contents
Preface............................................................................................................................................................................................. ix
Editors.............................................................................................................................................................................................. xi
Contributors...................................................................................................................................................................................xiii
1. Solid-State Lasers: Section Introduction.............................................................................................................................. 1
R. C. Powell
2. Transition Metal Ion Lasers—Cr3+....................................................................................................................................... 3
Georges Boulon
3. Transition Metal Ion Lasers Other Than Cr3+................................................................................................................... 25
Stephen A. Payne
4. Rare-Earth Ion Lasers—Nd3+............................................................................................................................................. 35
A. I. Zagumennyi, V. A. Mikhailov, and I. A. Shcherbakov
5. Rare-Earth Ions—Miscellaneous: Ce3+, U3+, Divalent, etc............................................................................................... 55
Gregory J. Quarles
6. Ti:sapphire: Material, Lasers and Amplifiers................................................................................................................... 69
Peter F. Moulton, Alan R. Fry, and Peter Fendel
7. Lanthanide Series Lasers—Near-Infrared........................................................................................................................ 83
Norman P. Barnes
8. Lasers Based on Non-Linear Effects..................................................................................................................................101
Fabienne Pellé
9. Solid-State Raman Lasers.................................................................................................................................................. 127
T. T. Basiev and R. C. Powell
10. Colour Centre Lasers...........................................................................................................................................................151
T. T. Basiev, P. G. Zverev, and S. B. Mirov
11. Laser Diodes: Section Introduction....................................................................................................................................167
Ian White
12. Basic Principles of Laser Diodes........................................................................................................................................ 169
Niloy K. Dutta
13. Spectral Control in Laser Diodes...................................................................................................................................... 195
Markus-Christian Amann
14. High-Speed Laser Diodes....................................................................................................................................................211
Peter P. Vasil’ev
15. High-Power Laser Diodes and Laser Diode Arrays........................................................................................................ 225
Peter Unger
16. Visible Laser Diodes: Properties of III–V Red-Emitting Laser Diodes........................................................................ 235
Peter Blood
17. Visible Laser Diodes: Properties of Blue Laser Diodes................................................................................................... 251
Robert Martin
18. Long-Wavelength Laser Diodes......................................................................................................................................... 263
S. Anders, G. Strasser, and E. Gornik
19. Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Amplifiers for Switching and Signal Processing................................................. 273
Hitoshi Kawaguchi
20. Silicon-Based Lasers........................................................................................................................................................... 287
Qiang Li, Bei Shi, and Yu Han
21. Gas/Vapour Lasers: Section Introduction........................................................................................................................ 299
Julian Jones
22. Atomic Gas Lasers: Helium–Neon Lasers........................................................................................................................ 301
Alan D. White and Lisa Tsufura
23. Helium–Cadmium Laser.................................................................................................................................................... 309
William T. Silfvast
24. Copper and Gold Vapour Lasers........................................................................................................................................315
Colin Webb
25. Ion Lasers: Argon and Krypton Ion Lasers..................................................................................................................... 325
Malcolm H. Dunn and Tony Gutierrez
26. Carbon Dioxide Lasers....................................................................................................................................................... 337
Denis R. Hall
27. Excimer Lasers: F2, N2 and H2 Lasers.............................................................................................................................. 365
W. J. Witteman
28. High-Brightness Excimer Lasers and Extreme Conditions They Produce................................................................... 403
Sándor Szatmári
29. Optically Pumped Mid-IR Lasers: NH3, C2H2..................................................................................................................419
Mary S. Tobin
30. Far-IR Lasers: HCN, H2O.................................................................................................................................................. 433
Wilhelm Prettl
31. Diode-Pumped Alkali Lasers (DPALs)............................................................................................................................. 441
Boris Zhdanov and Randall Knize
32. Chemical Lasers:Section Introduction............................................................................................................................. 449
Julian Jones
33. Chemical Lasers: COIL......................................................................................................................................................451
B. D. Barmashenko and S. Rosenwaks
34. Chemical Lasers: HF/DF.................................................................................................................................................... 467
Lee H. Sentman
35. Fiber and Waveguide Lasers: Section Introduction........................................................................................................ 475
R. C. Powell
36. Fibre Lasers......................................................................................................................................................................... 477
Wei Shi, Shijie Fu, and Qiang Fang
37. High-Power Fibre Lasers.................................................................................................................................................... 489
Christophe A. Codemard and M. N. Zervas
38. Raman Fibre Lasers........................................................................................................................................................... 501
Igor Bufetov and Sergey Babin
39. Solitons and Dissipative Solitons for Ultrafast Lasers.....................................................................................................521
Ph Grelu
40. Bismuth-Doped Fibre Lasers and Optical Amplifiers..................................................................................................... 535
Evgeny Dianov
41. Erbium and Other Doped Fibre Amplifiers..................................................................................................................... 557
Kevin Cordina
42. High-Power Planar Waveguide Lasers............................................................................................................................. 571
J. I. Mackenzie and D. P. Shepherd
43. MEMS-Based Swept Laser Source................................................................................................................................... 585
John O. Gerguis, Yasser M. Sabry, Haitham Omran, and Diaa Khalil
44. Dye Lasers: Section Introduction...................................................................................................................................... 599
Colin Webb
45. Liquid Lasers....................................................................................................................................................................... 601
David H. Titterton
46. Solid-State Dye Lasers........................................................................................................................................................ 623
David H. Titterton
47. Other Lasers: Section Introduction.................................................................................................................................. 637
Colin Webb, Subhash C. Singh, and Chunlei Guo
48. Free-Electron Lasers and Synchrotron Light Sources................................................................................................... 639
P. G. O’Shea and J. B. Murphy
49. X-Ray Lasers........................................................................................................................................................................ 653
Jorge J. Rocca
50. Terahertz Lasers................................................................................................................................................................. 671
Taiichi Otsuji
Index............................................................................................................................................................................................. 685
