(Ed.), Tunable Laser Applications, Second Edition (CRC, New York, 2009)
ISBN: 1420060090
This updated-enlarged edition of Tunable Laser Applications emphasizes spectroscopic, medical, and biomedical applications of tunable coherent sources. It includes: 15 chapters, 147 figures,36 tables, 280 equations, more than 1300 references, and an extensive index.
A brief list of corrections, for the readers of Tunable Laser Applications, is available in PDF form.
CONTENTS
Introduction, F. J. Duarte (pp. 1-14; 113 references).
Spectroscopic Applications of Pulsed Tunable Optical Parametric Oscillators, B. J. Orr, Y. He, and R. T. White (pp. 15-95; 397 references).
Introduction
Optical Parametric Devices: How They Operate
Nanosecond-Pulsed Optical Parametric Oscillators
Continuous-Wave Optical Parametric Oscillators
Ulrafast Optical Parametric Oscillators
Optical Parametric Devices for Spectroscopic Applications
Optical Bandwidth Control in Nanosecond-Pulsed OPOs
Factors Influencing Optical Bandwidth and Tunability
Injection-Seeded Pulsed OPOs: Early Days
Injection-Seeded Pulsed OPOs: Recent Progress
Spectroscopic Measurements Using OPOs
Spectroscopic Verification of OPO Performance
OPO Spectroscopic Sensing of Atoms and Molecules
CARS Microscopy: A Biomedical Application of OPOs
New Frontiers for OPO Spectroscopy
Solid-State Dye Lasers, A. Costela, I. García-Moreno, and R. Sastre (pp. 97-120; 50 references).
Organic Polymers
Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials
Silicon-Modified Organic Matrices
Polymers with Nano and Microparticles
Applications
Tunable Lasers Based on Dye-Doped Polymer Gain Media Incorporating Homogeneous Distributions of Functional Nanoparticles,
F. J. Duarte and R. O. James (pp. 121-142; 80 references).
Tunable Laser Oscillator Review
Synthesis of DDPN Laser Gain Media
Experimental Results and Laser Emission
Interferometric Interpretation
Invisibility of Nanoparticle Distributions in the Visible Electromagnetic Spectrum
Laser Spectroscopy
Laser Medicine
Broadly Tunable Dispersive External-Cavity Semiconductor Lasers, F. J. Duarte (pp. 143-177; 106 references).
Dispersive Oscillator Cavities
Interference and Diffraction
Intracavity Dispersion
Ray Transfer Matrices
Linewidth
Wavelength Tuning
Tuning Miniature MEMS-Driven Cavities
Tuning Using Bragg Gratings
Performance of Tunable External-Cavity Semiconductor Lasers
Performance of Ultrashort-Pulse External-Cavity Semiconductor Lasers
Applications
Tunable Fiber Lasers, T. M. Shay and F. J. Duarte (pp. 179-196; 37 refrerences).
Core and Cladding Pumped Fiber Lasers
Tunable Fiber Laser Configurations
Multiple-Prism Grating Configurations
Demostrated Tunable Fiber Laser Performance
Fiber Laser Overview and Medical Applications, S. Popov (pp. 197-226; 89 references).
Introduction
Lasers in Medicine and Life Sciences
Principles, Types and Performance of Fiber Lasers
Erbium Lasers
Ytterbium Lasers
Thulium Lasers
Holmium Lasers
Co-Doped and ZBLAN Fiber Lasers
Supercontinuum Fiber Lasers
Making and Marking Tools and Instruments for the Medical Industry
Medical Applications of Dye Lasers, A. Costela, I. García-Moreno, and R. Sastre (pp. 227-243; 89 references).
Laser Treatment of Vascular Lesions
Laser Treatment of Port-Wine Stains
Laser Treatment of Hemangiomas
Laser Treatment of Scars and Keliods
Laser Treatment of Tattoos
Lithotripsy
Laser Angioplasty
Dye Lasers for Photodynamic Therapy
Laser Safety in Medicine
Biological Microscopy With Ultrashort Laser Pulses, J. L. Thomas and W. Rudolph (pp. 245-280; 95 references).
Introduction
Nonlinear Microscopy
Plasmon Excitation
Coherent Quantum Control in Microscopy
Saturation Microscopies
Microscopy With Time and Coherent Gating
Femtosecond Oscillators
Femtosecond Fiber Laser
Q-Switching
Cavity Dumping
Long Cavities
External Storage Cavities
Pulse Amplification
Multiphoton Fluorescence Microscopy
Harmonic Microscopies
Four-Wave Mixing Microscopies
Pused, Tunable, Monochromatic X-Rays: Medical And Non-Medical Applications, F. E. Carroll (pp. 281-309; 41 references).
Introduction
The Medical Free Electron Laser Program
How do Monochromatic X-Rays Differ from Other X-Ray Currently Available?
Desirable Design Characteristics for a Compact Practical Device
Generation 3
Therapeutic Applications
What About the Children?
Tunable Monochromatic Mammography in 3D
K-Edge Imaging
Phase Contrast Imaging
Time-of-Flight Imaging
Protein Crystallography
Military and Industrial Applications
Lithum Spectroscopy Using Tunable Diode Lasers, I. E. Olivares (pp. 311-339; 53 references).
Introduction
Description of Saturated Absorption Spectroscopy
Multilevel Atoms
Detailed Saturation Absorption Calculations Using Matrix Elements
The Saturated Absorption Spectrometer
Spectroscopic Calculations
Using Diode Laser Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy
Lithium Isotope Separation Using Tunable Diode Lasers
Applications of Lithium Isotopes
Interferometric Imaging, F. J. Duarte (pp. 341-373; 38 references).
Introduction
Tunable Lasers
The Interferometer
Interferometric Theory
Interferometric Calculations
Densitometry in the Microscopic Domain
Detection of Surface Microdefects
Photographic Film Grain Structure
Assessment of Transmission Gratings and MTF
Theoretical Enhancement of the Resolution of Photodiode Arrays
Laser Printing
Wavelength Measurements
Secure Interferometric Communications in Free Space
Interferometry in Textiles
Applications to Biomedicine
Multiple-Prism Arrays and Multiple-Prism Beam Expanders: Laser Optics and Scientific Applications, F. J. Duarte (pp. 375-378; 62 references).
Introduction
Dispersion Theory of Multiple-Prism Arrays
The Interferometric Origing of Dispersion
Applications to Laser Optics
Applications to Laser Spectroscopy and Sequential Laser Excitation
Applications to Guide Stars and Astronomy
Applications to Pulse Compression and Ultrashort Pulse Lasers
Applications to Microscopy and Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy
Applications to Interferometry and Optical Metrology
Coherent Electrically-Excited Organic Semiconductors, F. J. Duarte (pp. 389-404; 41 references).