Handbook of Solid-State Lasers. This item is unavailable.Handbook of Solid-State Lasers

Solid-state lasers are widely used in medicine, industry, scientific research, military and remote sensing applications. They comprise a dominant part of the overall laser market. Solid-state lasers are fast replacing gas lasers for many applications. Solid-state lasers possess desirable characteristics such as good reliability and robustness, a high level of safety, user-friendliness, compact size and a low cost to performance ratio. They can be maintenance-free, suitable for high-volume production and they are becoming available in a wide range of wavelengths. Part one covers solid-state laser materials, part two discusses solid-state laser systems and part three looks at solid-state laser applications.

Key Features: reviews the materials used in solid-state lasers; explores the principles of solid-state laser systems and their applications; considers defence and environmental applications.

Contents: Part 1 Solid-state laser materials: Oxide laser crystals doped with rare earth and transition metal ions; Fluoride laser crystals; Oxide laser ceramics; Fluoride laser ceramics; Neodymium, Erbium and Ytterbium laser glasses; Nonlinear crystals for solid-state lasers. Part 2 Solid-state laser systems and their applications: Principles of solid-state lasers; Powering solid-state lasers; Operation regimes for solid-state lasers; Neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Nd:YAG) and neodymium-doped yttrium orthvanadate (Nd:YVO4); System sizing issues with diode-pumped quasi-three level materials; Neodymium doped lithium yttrium fluoride (Nd:YLiF4) lasers; Erbium (Er) glass lasers; Microchip lasers; Fiber lasers; Laser mid-infrared system with nonlinear optical conversion; Raman lasers; Cryogenic lasers; Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS); Surgical solid-state lasers and their clinical applications; Solid-state lasers (SSL) in defence programs; Environmental applications of solid-state lasers.

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.