Handbook of Laser Technology and Applications: Laser Design and Laser Systems (Volume Two)

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