Tunable laser applications

444 Pages·2016·15.525 MB·English

by  Duarte, Frank J

TH I RD E DITION
Tunable Laser
Applications
OPTICAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Founding Editor
Brian J. Thompson
University of Rochester
Rochester, New York
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Dedication
In memory of our dear friends, colleagues, and coauthors:
Roberto Sastre (1944–2010) and Robert Owens James (1944–2015).
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Contents
Preface.......................................................................................................................ix
Editor ........................................................................................................................xi
Contributors ...........................................................................................................xiii
Chapter 1 Introduction ..........................................................................................1
F. J. Duarte
Chapter 2 Spectroscopic Applications of Tunable Optical Parametric
Oscillators ..........................................................................................17
Brian J. Orr, John G. Haub, Yabai He, and Richard T. White
Chapter 3 Solid-State Organic Dye Lasers .......................................................143
Angel Costela, I. García-Moreno, and R. Sastre
Chapter 4 Organic Dye-Doped Polymer-Nanoparticle Tunable Lasers ............177
F. J. Duarte and R. O. James
Chapter 5 Broadly Tunable External-Cavity Semiconductor Lasers ................203
F. J. Duarte
Chapter 6 Tunable Fiber Lasers ........................................................................243
T. M. Shay and F. J. Duarte
Chapter 7 Fiber Laser Overview and Medical Applications ............................263
S. Popov
Chapter 8 Medical Applications of Organic Dye Lasers ..................................293
A. Costela, I. García-Moreno, and C. Gómez
Chapter 9 Tunable Laser Microscopy ...............................................................315
F. J. Duarte
Chapter 10 Interferometric Imaging ...................................................................329
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Chapter 11 Tunable Laser Atomic Vapor Laser Isotope Separation ...................371
F. J. Duarte
Chapter 12 Coherent Electrically Excited Organic Semiconductors ..................385
F. J. Duarte
Chapter 13 Multiple-Prism Arrays and Multiple-Prism Beam Expanders:
Laser Optics and Scientific Applications .........................................405
F. J. Duarte
Chapter 14 Optical Quantities and Conversions of Units ...................................425
F. J. Duarte
Index ......................................................................................................................429
Preface
Broadly tunable lasers continue to have a tremendous impact in many and diverse
fields of science and technology. From a renaissance in laser spectroscopy, to Bose–
Einstein condensation, the one nexus is … the tunable laser. In this regard, numerous
applications, from physics, to isotope separation, and all the way to medicine, depend
on the tunable laser. This third edition includes 14 chapters. In this collection of
chapters, two chapters are new, and all the other chapters have been updated and
extended in their coverage. The subject matter ranges from the physics of tunable
coherent sources and coherent microscopic instrumentation to exciting applications
such as astronomy, defense, medicine, laser isotope separation, microscopy, and
spectroscopy.
It is indeed a pleasure to offer to the scientific community this updated and
enlarged third edition of Tunable Laser Applications. As editor, I remain indebted
to all the contributing authors.
F. J. Duarte
Rochester, New York
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