Solid-State Laser Engineering

✍ Scribed by Walter Koechner Dr. (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 764
• Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences 1
• Edition: 6
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Written from an industrial perspective, Solid-State Laser Engineering discusses in detail the characteristics, design, construction, and performance of solid-state lasers. Emphasis is placed on engineering and practical considerations; phenomenological aspects using models are preferred to abstract mathematical derivations. Since its first edition almost 30 years ago this book has become the standard in the field of solid-state lasers for scientists,engineers and graduate students.

This new edition has been extensively revised and updated to account for recent developments in the areas of diode-laser pumping, laser materials and nonlinear crystals. Completely new sections have been added dealing with frequency control, the theory of mode-locking, femto second lasers, high efficiency harmonic generation, passive and acousto-optic Q-switching, semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAM) and peridically poled nonlinear crystals.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction....Pages 1-10
Energy Transfer Between Radiation and Atomic Transitions....Pages 11-37
Properties of Solid-State Laser Materials....Pages 38-101
Laser Oscillator....Pages 102-155
Laser Amplifier....Pages 156-209
Optical Resonator....Pages 210-299
Optical Pump Systems....Pages 300-422
Thermo-Optic Effects....Pages 423-487
Q-Switching....Pages 488-533
Mode Locking....Pages 534-586
Nonlinear Devices....Pages 587-679
Damage of Optical Elements....Pages 680-701

✦ Subjects

Laser Technology and Physics, Photonics; Solid State Physics and Spectroscopy; Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering