F. J. Duarte (Ed.), Tunable Laser Applications, Second Edition (CRC, 2008) in press

ISBN: 1420060090

This updated-enlarged edition of Tunable Laser Applications emphasizes spectroscopic and biomedical applications of tunable coherent sources. It includes: 15 chapters, 147 figures,36 tables, 280 equations, and more than 1300 references.

CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION, F. J. Duarte.
2. SPECTROSCOPIC APPLICATIONS OF PULSED TUNABLE OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS, B. J. Orr, Y. He, and R. T. White.
3. SOLID-STATE DYE LASERS, A. Costela, I. García-Moreno, and R. Sastre.
4. TUNABLE LASERS BASED ON DYE-DOPED POLYMER GAIN MEDIA INCORPORATING HOMOGENEOUS DISTRIBUTIONS OF FUNCTIONAL NANOPARTICLES, F. J. Duarte and R. O. James.
5. BROADLY TUNABLE DISPERSIVE EXTERNAL-CAVITY SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS, F. J. Duarte.
6. TUNABLE FIBER LASERS, T. M. Shay and F. J. Duarte.
7. FIBER LASER OVERVIEW AND MEDICAL APPLICATIONS, S. Popov.
8. MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF DYE LASERS, A. Costela, I. García-Moreno, and R. Sastre.
9. BIOLOGICAL MICROSCOPY WITH ULTRASHORT LASER PULSES, J. L. Thomas and W. Rudolph.
10. PULSED, TUNABLE, MONOCHROMATIC X-RAYS: MEDICAL AND NON-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS, F. E. Carroll.
11. LITHIUM SPECTROSCOPY USING TUNABLE DIODE LASERS, I. E. Olivares.
12. INTERFEROMETRIC IMAGING, F. J. Duarte.
13. MULTIPLE-PRISM ARRAYS AND MULTIPLE-PRISM BEAM EXPANDERS: LASER OPTICS AND SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS, F. J. Duarte.
14. COHERENT ELECTRICALLY-EXCITED ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS, F. J. Duarte.
15. APPENDIX ON OPTICAL QUANTITIES AND CONVERSIONS OF UNITS, F. J. Duarte.

Authors

• F. E. Carroll, MXISystems and Vanderbilt University.
• A. Costela, Instituto de Química Física Rocasolano, CSIC, Spain.
• F. J. Duarte, Interferometric Optics and University of New Mexico.
• I. García-Moreno, Instituto de Química Física Rocasolano, CSIC, Spain.
• Y. He, MQ Photonics Research Centre, Macquarie University, Australia.
• R. O. James, QED Technologies.
• I. E. Olivares, Universidad de Santiago, Chile.
• B. J. Orr, MQ Photonics Research Centre, Macquarie University, Australia.
• S. Popov, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
• W. Rudolph, University of New Mexico.
• R. Sastre, Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de Polímeros, CSIC, Spain.
• T. M. Shay, US Air Force Research Laboratory.
• J. L. Thomas, University of New Mexico.
• R. T. White, MQ Photonics Research Centre, Macquarie University, Australia.

F. J. Duarte (Ed.), Tunable Laser Applications (Marcel-Dekker, New York, 1995)

ISBN: 0-8247-8928-8

CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION, F. J. Duarte, pp. 1-10.
2. SPECTROSCOPIC APPLICATIONS OF PULSED TUNABLE OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS, B. J. Orr, M. J. Johnson, and J. G. Haub, pp. 11-82.
3. DISPERSIVE EXTERNAL-CAVITY SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS, F. J. Duarte, pp. 83-112.
4. APPLICATIONS OF ULTRASHORT PULSES, X. M. Zhao, S. Diddams, and J. C. Diels, pp. 113-151.
5. INTERFEROMETRIC IMAGING, F. J. Duarte, pp. 153-178.
6. MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF THE FREE ELECTRON LASER, F. Carroll and C. Brau, pp. 179-212.
7. LIDAR FOR ATMOSPHERIC AND HYDROSPHERIC STUDIES, W. B. Grant, pp. 213-305.

Contains 71 figures, 12 tables, 104 equations, and more than 1100 references in 313 pages.

AUTHORS

• C. Brau, Vanderbilt University.
• F. Carroll, Vanderbilt University.
• S. Diddams, The University of New Mexico.
• J. C. Diels, The University of New Mexico.
• F. J. Duarte, Eastman Kodak Company.
• W. B. Grant, NASA Langley Research Center.
• J. G. Haub, Macquarie University.
• M. J. Johnson, Macquarie University.
• B. J. Orr, Macquarie University.
• X. M. Zhao, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

MORE BOOKS ON TUNABLE LASERS

• Dye Laser Principles
• High Power Dye Lasers
• Selected Papers on Dye Lasers
• Tunable Lasers Handbook
• Tunable Laser Optics

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