High Power Lasers — Science and Engineering

✍ Scribed by W. J. Witteman (auth.), Dr. Ram Kossowsky, Prof. Miroslav Jelinek, Dr. Robert F. Walter (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 660
• Series: NATO ASI Series 7
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In the thirty years since the invention of the CO₂ gas laser, the major design issue has shifted from how to obtain the desired power level to how to achieve reliable operation. At the same time, the opening of many laser development facilities in the Former Soviet Union has allowed their achievements and design approaches to be understood and appreciated for the first time. Further, the industrial laser user community has identified a number of emerging applications at higher power levels (15-20 kW) than are attainable by most commercial devices.
In High Power Lasers - Science and Engineering, the designers, developers and users of high-power gas laser systems discuss design approaches, methods of enhancing performance, new applications, and user requirements.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Characteristics of High Power (CO 2 ) Lasers....Pages 3-25
Electric-Discharge Pumping....Pages 27-45
Spatial and Temporal Scales of Active Medium Inhomogeneities in High Power Gas Lasers....Pages 47-82
Gas Lasers with Plasmodynamic Pumping....Pages 83-93
Study of New Gain Media for High Power Gas Flow Lasers....Pages 95-111
On Unstable Resonators Producing Compact Output Beam....Pages 113-123
Dynamics of Lasers with Passive and Active Modulation of Losses....Pages 125-137
The time evolution of the electric characteristics of a laser discharge through their waveforms of the voltage and the current....Pages 139-152
Metal Vapour Lasers....Pages 153-175
Design and Analysis of a Deep UV Laser based on Ce 3+ : LiSrAIF 6 ....Pages 177-184
Simultaneous Emission in UV and IR Region in a Sliding Discharge Excited Laser....Pages 185-190
Experimental and Theoretical Results of High Optical Quality Excimer Laser Beams....Pages 191-198
A High Efficiency Soft X-Ray Laser in the 25–30 nm Spectral Region....Pages 199-215
The Asterix IV Iodine Laser: Performance and Applications....Pages 217-237
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
High Power Solid State Lasers with Phase Conjugation for Applications with High Beam Quality....Pages 241-253
Laser Resonator Concepts....Pages 255-282
Variable Reflectivity Mirror Unstable Resonator Thermal Lens Compensated by a Deformable Rear Mirror....Pages 283-292
Two-Rod VRM-Unstable Resonator with Deformable Mirror Thermal Compensation....Pages 293-301
Beam Transport Optics for High-Power Laser Systems....Pages 303-329
High-Power UV Excilamps....Pages 331-345
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Reproducible Ultrashort Pulses and Multistable Monochromatic Emission from Solid-State Lasers with Saturable Absorber and Negative Feedback Loop....Pages 347-364
An Extended Characterization of Flattened Gaussian Beams....Pages 365-372
Optics for X-Ray Laser and Laser Plasma Soft X-Ray Radiation....Pages 373-380
Computer Simulation of the Laser Beam Intensity Distribution in Resonant Cavities....Pages 381-388
Front Matter....Pages 389-389
Laser Medium Quality Control....Pages 391-412
Laser Thermal-Wave Diagnostics of Stressed States in Metals....Pages 413-421
Experimental Studies of Reflection Ability of Liquid Metal Targets in Vacuum Under Conditions of Neodymium Laser Pulse Radiation....Pages 423-432
Reconstruction of a Light Beam Wave Front by Synthesis of a Shear Interferogram....Pages 433-447
Experimental Investigations of the Output Beam Properties from a High Power CW CO 2 Laser....Pages 449-454
The Applications of a Near-IR Laser to Raman Spectroscopy: FT-Raman Spectroscopic Studies of Adsorbed Species by Clays....Pages 455-460
Front Matter....Pages 461-461
High-Power Lasers in Materials Processing — An Automotive Perspective....Pages 463-504
LCVD with Copper Vapour and Copper Bromide Vapour Lasers — Review....Pages 505-526
Laser Deposition and Characterization of A-C and A-C:N Films....Pages 527-532
Anisotropic Melting of Semiconductors at Irradiation by Powerful Light Pulses....Pages 533-548
Excimer Laser Assisted Deposition and Characterization of Molybdenum Films — Fabrication of Molybdenum Coatings on Optical Fibres....Pages 549-559
Pulsed Laser-Induced Synthesis of Metal Sulphides in Sulphurous Liquids Under Action of Shock Waves....Pages 561-565
Laser Patterning of Thin Films....Pages 567-574
Applications of Nd and Er:YAG Lasers in Ophthalmology and Dentistry....Pages 575-582
Front Matter....Pages 583-583
History, Current Status and Outlook to the Future of High Power Solid State Lasers....Pages 585-601
Industrial Fast -Axial Flow Carbon Dioxide Lasers in Russia....Pages 603-618
Front Matter....Pages 583-583
Fundamentals and Current Status of Excimer Lasers....Pages 619-660
Back Matter....Pages 661-672

✦ Subjects

Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices;Measurement Science and Instrumentation;Solid State Physics;Spectroscopy and Microscopy;Characterization and Evaluation of Materials;Manufacturing, Machines, Tools