Handbook of Solid-State Lasers (eBook, ePUB)

Materials, Systems and Applications
Redaktion: Denker, B.; Shklovsky, E.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Solid-state lasers which offer multiple desirable qualities, including enhanced reliability, robustness, efficiency and wavelength diversity, are absolutely indispensable for many applications. The Handbook of solid-state lasers reviews the key materials, processes and applications of solid-state lasers across a wide range of fields.

Part one begins by reviewing solid-state laser materials. Fluoride laser crystals, oxide laser ceramics, crystals and fluoride laser ceramics doped by rare earth and transition metal ions are discussed alongside neodymium, erbium and ytterbium laser glasses, and nonlinear crystals for solid-state lasers. Part two then goes on to explore solid-state laser systems and their applications, beginning with a discussion of the principles, powering and operation regimes for solid-state lasers. The use of neodymium-doped materials is considered, followed by system sizing issues with diode-pumped quasi-three level materials, erbium glass lasers, and microchip, fiber, Raman and cryogenic lasers. Laser mid-infrared systems, laser induced breakdown spectroscope and the clinical applications of surgical solid-state lasers are also explored. The use of solid-state lasers in defense programs is then reviewed, before the book concludes by presenting some environmental applications of solid-state lasers.

With its distinguished editors and international team of expert contributors, the Handbook of solid-state lasers is an authoritative guide for all those involved in the design and application of this technology, including laser and materials scientists and engineers, medical and military professionals, environmental researchers, and academics working in this field.

• Reviews the materials used in solid-state lasers
• Explores the principles of solid-state laser systems and their applications
• Considers defence and environmental applications

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857097507
• Artikelnr.: 40306753

Autorenporträt

Boris Denker is head of the Laboratory of Concentrated Laser Materials at the A.M.Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia.

Eugene Shklovsky is Senior Laser Scientist at Optech Inc, Toronto, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Contributor contact details

Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials

Foreword

Preface

Part I: Solid-state laser materials

Chapter 1: Oxide laser crystals doped with rare earth and transition metal ions

Abstract:

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Laser-active ions

1.3 Host lattices

1.4 Laser medium geometry

1.5 Rare earth-doped sesquioxides

1.6 Mode-locked sesquioxide lasers

1.7 Future trends

Chapter 2: Fluoride laser crystals

Abstract:

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Crystal growth, structural, optical and thermo-mechanical properties of the most important fluoride crystals

2.3 Pr3 + doped crystals for RGB video-projection and quantum information experiments

2.4 Yb3+ doped fluorides for ultra-short and high-power laser chains

2.5 Undoped crystals for nonlinear optics and ultra-short pulse lasers

Chapter 3: Oxide laser ceramics

Abstract:

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Ceramics preparation

3.3 Physical properties of oxide laser ceramics

3.4 Solid-state lasers using oxide ceramic elements

3.5 Conclusion

3.6 Acknowledgements

Chapter 4: Fluoride laser ceramics

Abstract:

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Fluoride powders: chemistry problems and relevant technology processes

4.3 Fluoride ceramics as optical medium

4.4 Development of the fluoride laser ceramics synthesis protocol

4.5 Microstructure, spectral luminescence and lasing properties

4.6 CaF2:Yb3 + system

4.7 Prospective compositions for fluoride laser ceramics

4.8 Conclusion

4.9 Acknowledgments

4.10 Note to the reader

Chapter 5: Neodymium, erbium and ytterbium laser glasses

Abstract:

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The history of laser glasses

5.3 Commercial laser glasses

5.4 Modern neodymium and erbium laser glasses

5.5 Ytterbium glasses

5.6 Future trends in glass-based laser materials

Chapter 6: Nonlinear crystals for solid-state lasers

Abstract:

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Second-order frequency conversion

6.3 Nonlinear crystal development

6.4 Nonlinear crystals: current status and future trends

6.5 Sources of further information and advice

Part II: Solid-state laser systems and their applications

Chapter 7: Principles of solid-state lasers

Abstract:

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Amplification of radiation

7.3 Optical amplifiers

7.4 Laser resonators

7.5 Model of laser operation

7.6 Conclusion

Chapter 8: Powering solid-state lasers

Abstract:

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Safety

8.3 Flashlamp pumping

8.4 Laser diode pumping

8.5 Control features

8.6 Conclusion

Chapter 9: Operation regimes for solid-state lasers

Abstract:

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Continuous-wave operation

9.3 Pulsed pumping of solid-state lasers

9.4 Q-switching

9.5 Mode locking

9.6 Chirped-pulse amplification

9.7 Regenerative amplification

Chapter 10: Neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Nd:YAG) and neodymium-doped yttrium orthovanadate (Nd:YVO4)

Abstract:

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Oscillators for neodymium lasers

10.3 Power/energy limitations and oscillator scaling concepts

10.4 Power scaling with master oscillator/power amplifier (MOPA) architectures

10.5 Future trends

10.6 Sources of further information and advice

Chapter 11: System sizing issues with diode-pumped quasi-three-level materials

Abstract:

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Ytterbium-doped materials and bulk operating conditions

11.3 Overview of Yb-based systems pump architectures and modes of operation

11.4 YAG-KGW-KYW-based laser systems for nanosecond and sub-p