Handbook of Laser Technology and Applications

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VOLUME 1: PRINCIPLES. Foreword. A Principles. A/1 Basic laser principles. A/2/1 Laser resonators. A/2/2 Waveguide resonators. A/3 Laser beam control. A/4 Nonlinear optics. A/5 Interferometry and Polarisation. A/6 Waveguide theory. A/7 Optical detection and noise. A/8 Numerical Modeling. VOLUME 2: LASER DESIGN AND LASER SYSTEMS. B Laser Design, Fabrication and Properties. B/1 Solid State Lasers. B/1/1 Transition Metal Ion Lasers - Cr3+. B/1/2 Transition Metal Ion Lasers Other Than Cr3+. B/1/3 Rare Earth Ion Lasers - Nd3+. B/1/4 Rare Earth Ion Lasers - Near Infrared. B/1/5 Rare Earth Ions Lasers - Miscellaneous: Ce3+, U3+, divalent, etc. B/1/6 Lasers Based on Nonlinear Effects. B/1/7 Solid State Raman Lasers. B/1/8 Color Center Lasers. B/2 Semiconductor/diode lasers. B/2/1 Basic principles of laser diodes. B/2/2 Spectral control in laser diodes. B/2/3 High speed laser diodes. B/2/4 High power laser diodes and laser diode arrays. B/2/5/1 Visible laser diodes: Properties of III-V red emitting laser diodes. B/2/5/2 Visible laser diodes: Properties of Blue Laser Diodes. B/2/6 Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers. B/2/7 Long wavelength laser diodes. B/2/8 Diode lasers for switching and signal processing. B/3 Gas lasers. B/3/1 CW CO2, CO and N2O and TEA CO2 lasers. B/3/2 Excimer, F2, H2 and N2 lasers. B/3/3 Copper and gold vapor lasers. B/3/4/1 Chemical lasers: COIL. B/3/4/2 Chemical lasers: HF/DF. B/3/5 Ar+ laser. B/3/6 He-Ne laser. B/3/7 He-Cd laser. B/3/8 Optically pumped mid IR lasers: NH3, C2H2. B/3/9 Far-IR lasers: HCN, H2O. B/4 Fiber and waveguide lasers. B/4/1 Fiber Lasers. B/4/2 High Power Fiber Lasers. B/4/3 DFBG Fiber Raman Lasers. B/4/4 Soliton lasers. B/4/5 Erbium and other doped fiber amplifiers. B/4/6 High power waveguide lasers. B/5 Other lasers. B/5/1 Free electron lasers. B/5/2 X-ray lasers. B/5/3 Liquid organic dye lasers. B/5/4 Solid organic dye lasers. C Laser System Design. C/1 Components. C/1/1 Optical components. C/1/2 Optical control elements. C/1/3 Adaptive optics and phase conjugate reflectors. C/1/4 Opto-mechanical parts. C/1/5/1 Power conditioning: Supplies for driving diodes (semiconductor lasers). C/1/5/2 Power conditioning: Supplies for driving gas discharges (gas and solid state lasers). C/1/5/3 Power conditioning: Supplies for driving flash tubes and arc lamps for solid state lasers. C/2 Optical pulse generation. C/2/1 Quasi-CW and modulated beams. C/2/2 Short pulses. C/2/3 Ultrashort pulses. C/3 Frequency conversion and filtering. C/3/1 Harmonic generation - materials and methods. C/3/2 Optical parametric oscillators and amplifiers. C/3/3 Laser stabilisation for precision measurements. C/4 Beam delivery systems. C/4/1 Basic principles. C/4/2 Free space optics. C/4/3 Fiber optic beam delivery. C/4/4 Positioning and scanning systems. C/5 Laser beam characterisation and measurement. C/5/1 Beam propagation parameters. C/5/2 Detectors. C/5/3 Power and energy measurement. C/5/4 Irradiance and phase distribution measurement. C/6 Laser safety: Introduction. C/6 Laser safety. VOLUME 3: Applications. D Applications: Case Studies. D/1 Materials Processing. D/1 Introduction. D/1/1 Welding. D/1/2 Cutting. D/1/3 Marking. D/1/4 Drilling. D/1/5 Photolithography. D/1/6 Micromachining. D/1/7 Rapid Manufacturing. D/1/8 Deposition of thin films. D/2 Optical Measurement Techniques. D/2 Introduction. D/2/1 Fundamental length metrology. D/2/2 Laser velocimetry. D/2/3 Laser vibrometers. D/2/4 Electronic speckle pattern interferometry (ESPI). D/2/5 Optical fibre hydrophones. D/2/6 Optical fibre Bragg grating sensors for strain measurement. D/2/7 High speed imaging. D/2/8 Particle sizing. D/3 Medical. D/3 Introduction. D/3/1 Light-Tissue Interactions. D/3/2 Therapeutic Applications: Introduction. D/3/2/1 Therapeutic Applications: Opthalmology. D/3/2/2 Therapeutic Applications: Refractive Surgery. D/3/2/3 Therapeutic Applications: Photodynamic Therapy. D/3/2/4 Therapeutic Applications: Tumour Therapy. D/3/2/5 Therapeutic Applications: Dermatology. D/3/2/6 Therapeutic Applications: Lasers in Vascular Surgery. D/3/2/7 Therapeutic Applications: Hardtissue/Dentistry. D/3/2/8 Therapeutic Applications: Free-Electron Laser. D/3/3 Diagnostic Applications. D/3/4 Applications in Biology and Biotechnology. D/3/5 Laser Safety. D/4 Communications. D/4 Introduction. D/4/1 Basic point to point communications system. D/4/2 Long haul systems. D/4/3 Local area networks. D/4/4 Fibre to board/chip. D/4/5 Optical satellite communications. D/4/6 Smart Pixel Technologies and Optical Interconnects. D/5 Information storage. D/5 Introduction. D/5/1 Optical data storage. D/5/2 Lasers in printing. D/6 Spectroscopy. D/6 Introduction. D/6/1 Laser cooling and trapping. D/6/2 Ion trapping and laser applications to length and time metrology. D/6/3 Time resolved spectroscopy. D/7 Earth and environmental sciences. D/7 Introduction. D/7/1 Satellite laser ranging. D/7/2 Lidar for atmospheric remote sensing. D/8 Introduction. D/8/1 Lasers in Astronomy. D/9 Introduction. D/9/1 Holographic optical elements and computer generated holography. D/10 Plasmas. D/10/1 High Power Lasers for Plasma Physics. D/10/2 High-power lasers and the extreme conditions that they can produce.