Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh / Irina T. Sorokina (eds.)

Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources and Applications

Herausgegeben:Ebrahim-Zadeh, Majid; Sorokina, Irina T.

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Produktbeschreibung

Coherent sources of mid-infrared (mid-IR) radiation are of great interest for a wide range of scienti?c and technological applications from spectroscopy and frequency metrology to information technology, industrial process control, pho- chemistry, photobiology and photomedicine. The mid-IR spectrum, which may be de?ned as wavelengths beyond ?2µm, covers important atmospheric windows, and numerous molecular gases, toxic agents, air, water, and soil pollutants, c- ponents of human breath, and several explosive agents have strong absorption ?ngerprints in this region. The development of practical coherent solid-state sources in the mid-IR can thus provide indispensable tools for a variety of - plications in environmental monitoring and pollution control, detection of water and soil contaminants, food quality control, agriculture and life sciences, and n- invasive disease diagnosis and therapy through breath analysis. Coherent mid-IR sources also offer important technologies for atmospheric chemistry, free-space communication, imaging, rapid detection of explosives, chemical and biological agents, nuclear material and narcotics, as well as applications in air- and sea-born safety and security, amongst many. The timely advancement of coherent mid-IR sources is, therefore, vital to future progress in many application areas across a broad range of scienti?c, technological, and industrial disciplines. On the other hand, more than 40 years after the invention of laser, much of the mid-IR spectrum still remains inaccessible to conventional lasers due to fun- mental limitations, most notably a lack of suitable crystalline laser gain materials.

Produktdetails

• NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 12081646, 978-1-4020-6462-3
• 2008
• Seitenzahl: 644
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1076g
• ISBN-13: 9781402064623
• ISBN-10: 1402064624
• Artikelnr.: 22952969

Autorenporträt

Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh, ICFO - Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Barcelona, Spain / Irina T. Sorokina, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, Trondheim, Norway

Inhaltsangabe

Crystalline Laser and Nonlinear Optical Materials for the Mid-IR.- New Monocrystals with Low Phonon Energy for Mid-IR Lasers.- Orthorhombic Crystals of Lithium Thioindate and Selenoindate for Nonlinear Optics in the Mid-IR.- Quaternary Nonlinear Optical Crystals for the Mid-Infrared Spectral Range from 5 to 12 ?m.- Microstructured Semiconductors for Mid-Infrared Nonlinear Optics.- Sources in the Mid-IR.- Progress in Quantum Cascade Lasers.- High-Brightness 2.X ?m Semiconductor Lasers.- Broadband Mid-Infrared Solid-State Lasers.- New Regimes of Excitation and Mid-IR Lasing of Transition Metal Doped II-VI Crystals.- Advances in Mid-Infrared Fiber Lasers.- Mid-Infrared Optical Parametric Oscillators and Applications.- Mid-Infrared Integrated Optical Parametric Generators and Oscillators with Periodically Poled Ti:LiNbO3 Waveguides.- Optical Parametric Generators and Amplifiers.- Tunable THz Sources Based on Quasi-Phase-Matched Gallium Arsenide.- Semiconductor Waveguides for Nonlinear Frequency Conversion.- Applications.- Semiconductor Laser Based Trace Gas Sensor Technology: Recent Advances and Applications.- Trace Gas Analysis with Isotopic Selectivity Using DFG-Sources.- Photoacoustic Spectroscopy Using Continuous Wave Optical Parametric Oscillators.- Online Monitoring of Exhaled Breath Using Mid-Infrared Laser Spectroscopy.- Ultrabroadband Solid-State Lasers in Trace Gas Sensing.- Medical Applications of Mid-IR Solid-State Lasers.- Opportunities for Mid-IR Sources in Intense-Field and Attosecond Physics.- Ultrawideband Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nanostructures.