Handbook of lasers / Marvin J. Weber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weber, Marvin J., 1932-

Series:

CRC Press laser and optical science and technology series

The CRC Press laser and optical science and technology series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lasers--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Lasers.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

1198 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton : CRC Press, [2001]

Summary:

The Handbook of Lasers is an extremely comprehensive and up-to-date compilation of the properties of lasers in all media. This publication contains a combination of numerical and graphical data presented in the Handbook of Laser Science and Technology along with more recent developments and presented in a concise volume. Lasers are grouped by type solid, liquid, and gas. The entries include the properties of crystalline, paramagnetic ion lasers, glass lasers, color center lasers, semi-conductor lasers and more. X-ray lasers and free electron lasers are also covered.

Contents:

Section 1 Solid State Lasers

1.1 Crystalline Paramagnetic Ion Lasers 5

1.1.2 Host Crystals Used for Transition Metal Laser Ions 19

1.1.3 Host Crystals Used for Lanthanide Laser Ions 20

1.1.4 Tables of Transition Metal Ion Lasers 29

1.1.5 Tables of Divalent Lanthanide Ion Lasers 36

1.1.6 Tables of Trivalent Lanthanide Ion Lasers 37

1.1.7 Actinide Ion Lasers 100

1.1.8 Other Ions and Crystals Exhibiting Gain 101

1.1.9 Self-Frequency-Doubled Lasers 101

1.1.10 Commercial Crystalline Transition Metal Ion Lasers 103

1.1.11 Commercial Crystalline Lanthanide Ion Lasers 104

1.2 Glass Lasers 161

1.2.2 Tables of Glass Lasers 167

1.2.3 Glass Amplifiers 181

1.2.4 Commercial Glass Lasers 182

1.3 Solid State Dye Lasers 195

1.3.2 Dye Doped Organic Lasers 196

1.3.3 Silica and Silica-Gel Dye Lasers 205

1.3.4 Dye Doped Inorganic Crystal Lasers 209

1.3.5 Dye Doped Glass Lasers 209

1.3.6 Dye Doped Gelatin Lasers 210

1.3.7 Dye Doped Biological Materials Lasers 210

1.3.8 Commercial Solid State Dye Lasers 210

1.4 Color Center Lasers 217

1.4.2 Centers and Crystals Used for Color Center Lasers 219

1.4.3 Table of Color Center Lasers 221

1.4.4 Commercial Color Center Lasers 226

1.5 Semiconductor Lasers 231

1.5.2 II-VI Compound Lasers 235

1.5.3 Mercury II-VI Compound Lasers 237

1.5.4 III-V Compound Lasers 238

1.5.5 III-V Compound Antimonide Lasers 242

1.5.6 Nitride Lasers 243

1.5.7 Lead IV-VI Compound Lasers 244

1.5.8 Germanium-Silicon Intervalence Band Lasers 245

1.5.9 Other Semiconductor Lasers 246

1.5.10 Quantum Cascade and Intersubband Lasers 247

1.5.11 Vertical Cavity Lasers 249

1.5.12 Commercial Semiconductor Lasers 251

1.6 Polymer Lasers 273

1.6.2 Pure Polymer Lasers 274

1.6.3 Dye Doped Polymer Lasers 278

1.6.4 Rare Earth Doped Polymer Lasers 288

1.7 Solid State Excimer Lasers 289

1.8 Raman, Brillouin, and Soliton Lasers 291

1.8.2 Crystalline Raman Lasers 292

1.8.3 Fiber Raman Lasers and Amplifiers 295

1.8.4 Fiber Soliton Lasers 296

1.8.5 Fiber Brillouin Lasers 297

Section 2 Liquid Lasers

2.1 Liquid Organic Dye Lasers 305

2.1.2 Chemical Nomenclature 307

2.1.3 Tables of Liquid Organic Dye Lasers 310

2.1.4 Commercial Dye Lasers 360

2.1.5 Dye Laser Tuning Curves 360

2.2 Rare Earth Liquid Lasers 375

2.2.2 Chelate Liquid Lasers 375

2.2.2 Aprotic Liquid Lasers 381

2.3 Liquid Polymer Lasers 385

2.4 Liquid Excimer Lasers 387

Section 3 Gas Lasers

3.1 Neutral Atom Gas Lasers 393

3.1.2 Tables of Neutral Atom Gas Lasers 395

3.2 Ionized Gas Lasers 463

3.2.2 Energy Level Diagrams 465

3.2.3 Tables of Ionized Gas Lasers 480

3.3 Molecular Gas Lasers 531

3.3.1 Electronic Transition Gas Lasers 531

3.3.2 Vibrational Transition Gas Lasers 609

3.4 Far Infrared and Millimeter Wave Gas Lasers 721

3.4.2 Tables of Atomic Far Infrared Gas Lasers 723

3.4.3 Tables of Far Infrared and Millimeter Wave Gas Lasers 725

3.5. Commercial Gas Lasers 843

Section 4 Other Lasers

4.1 Extreme Ultraviolet and Soft X-Ray Lasers 1113

4.1.2 Lasing Transitions of H-like Ions 1116

4.1.3 Lasing Transitions of Li-like Ions 1117

4.1.4 Lasing Transitions of Be-like Ions 1118

4.1.5 Lasing Transitions of Ne-like Ions 1118

4.1.6 Lasing Transitions of Co-like Ions 1122

4.1.7 Lasing Transitions of Ni-like Ions 1122

4.1.8 Lasing Transitions of Pd-like Ions 1124

4.2 Free Electron Lasers 1129

4.2.2 Short Wavelength Free Electron Lasers 1131

4.2.3 Long Wavelength Free Electron Lasers 1135

4.3 Nuclear Pumped Lasers 1139

4.3.2 Reactor Pumped Lasers 1141

4.3.3 Nuclear Device Pumped Lasers 1143

4.4 Natural Lasers 1147

4.5 Inversionless Lasers 1151

4.6 Amplification of Core-Valence Luminescence 1155

Appendix I Laser Safety 1159

Appendix II Acronyms, Abbreviations, Initialisms, and Common Names for Types of Lasers, Laser Materials, Laser Structures and Operating Configurations, and Systems Involving Lasers 1167

Appendix III Electron Configurations of Neutral Atoms in the Ground State 1179

Appendix IV Fundamental Physical Constants 1183.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0849335094

OCLC:

44550568