Download or read book Diode Laser pumped Neodymium Lasers in Pulsed and Continuous Wave Operation written by Bruno Frei and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Passive Q switching of a Diode pumped Neodymium YAG Laser written by Jeffrey Allen Morris and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lasers for Medical Applications written by Helena Jelínková and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 827 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lasers have a wide and growing range of applications in medicine. Lasers for Medical Applications summarises the wealth of recent research on the principles, technologies and application of lasers in diagnostics, therapy and surgery.Part one gives an overview of the use of lasers in medicine, key principles of lasers and radiation interactions with tissue. To understand the wide diversity and therefore the large possible choice of these devices for a specific diagnosis or treatment, the respective types of the laser (solid state, gas, dye, and semiconductor) are reviewed in part two. Part three describes diagnostic laser methods, for example optical coherence tomography, spectroscopy, optical biopsy, and time-resolved fluorescence polarization spectroscopy. Those methods help doctors to refine the scope of involvement of the particular body part or, for example, to specify the extent of a tumor. Part four concentrates on the therapeutic applications of laser radiation in particular branches of medicine, including ophthalmology, dermatology, cardiology, urology, gynecology, otorhinolaryngology (ORL), neurology, dentistry, orthopaedic surgery and cancer therapy, as well as laser coatings of implants. The final chapter includes the safety precautions with which the staff working with laser instruments must be familiar.With its distinguished editor and international team of contributors, this important book summarizes international achievements in the field of laser applications in medicine in the past 50 years. It provides a valuable contribution to laser medicine by outstanding experts in medicine and engineering. - Describes the interaction of laser light with tissue - Reviews every type of laser used in medicine: solid state, gas, dye and semiconductor - Describes the use of lasers for diagnostics
Download or read book 888 nm pumping of Nd YVO4 for high power TEM00 lasers written by Louis McDonagh and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last decade, neodymium-doped orthovanadate has established itself as the active material of choice for commercial solid-state lasers emitting in the 1 µm range, with output powers from several hundred milliwatts to a few tens of watts, in continuous-wave, short nanosecond Q-switched, or picosecond modelocked pulsed regimes. Its main advantages over other Nd-doped hosts such as YAG are a large stimulated-emission cross section leading to a high gain, a strong pump absorption allowing the efficient mode-matching of tightly-focused pump light, and a natural birefringence resulting in a continuously polarized output. The main drawbacks, however, are rather poor mechanical characteristics and strong thermal lensing, effectively limiting the maximum applicable pump power before excessively strong and aberrated thermal lensing prevents an efficient operation in a diffraction-limited beam, and ultimately the crystal’s fracture. Put aside the power limitation, the association of vanadate with diode end pumping allows for the realization of highly efficient and reliable laser sources based on well-known technologies, which provides an advantage in terms of manufacturability and cost-effectiveness over other high-potential technologies such as disks and fibers. This thesis introduces a novel pumping technique for Nd:YVO4 that allows for the realization of significantly higher-power laser sources with a high optical-to-optical efficiency and diffraction-limited beam quality, while keeping the benefits of a well-established technology. It consists in pumping at a wavelength of 888 nm instead of the classic 808 nm, providing a low and isotropic absorption, which results in a smooth distribution of the absorbed pump light in long crystals, effectively limiting the deleterious effects of high inversion density such as crystal end-facet bulging, high crystal temperature, aberrated thermal lensing, and upconversion. After presenting vanadate’s spectroscopic and physical characteristics, a complete analysis of the heatgenerating effects is performed, allowing for side-by-side simulations of the thermal effects in practical 808 nm and 888 nm pumped systems, and for an evaluation of their respective thermal lensing behaviors. Continuous-wave operation was thoroughly investigated, first in a multi-transversal mode oscillator to assess the maximum optical efficiency with optimum pump-mode matching and the thermal lensing characteristics. A TEM00 resonator was then developed with a single crystal and one pump diode, providing 60 W of output power with an optical efficiency of 55% and a beam quality of M2 = 1.05. This resonator was symmetrically replicated to form a periodic resonator, providing 120 W of output with the same optical efficiency and beam quality. This two-crystal configuration was then modified to an oscillator-amplifier configuration, providing a single-pass extraction efficiency of 53% and a total oscillator-amplifier output of 117 W without any beam-quality degradation. Intracavity doubling of the one and two-crystal configurations was achieved by inserting a non-critically phase-matched LiB5O3 (LBO) non-linear crystal in the resonator, providing up to 62 W of diffraction-limited green light at 532 nm with low-noise characteristics thanks to a large number of oscillating modes, thus limiting the effects of the “green problem”. A strong industrial interest resides in Q-switched lasers emitting nanosecond pulses, particularly with a high average power, high pulse repetition rate, and pulse durations of a few to several tens of nanoseconds. Achieving high-frequency and short-pulse operation both require a high gain, which explains the domination of Nd:YVO4 over lower-gain materials such as Nd:YAG or Yb:YAG. Thus, an acousto-optically Q-switched oscillator was demonstrated with 50 W output power and 28 ns pulse duration at 50 kHz. Pulse duration, however, is inversely proportional to the pulse energy, so that an increase in repetition rate inevitably results in an almost linear increase in pulse width. A cavity-dumped Q-switched oscillator was built to circumvent this limitation, the pulse length being defined by the cavity roundtrip time and the electro-optic cell switching time. It provided a constant pulse duration of 6 ns up to a repetition rate of 100 kHz and a maximum output power of 47 W. Such short pulse durations are normally available with output powers of a few watts from Q-switched lasers, and conversely Q-switched lasers of similarly high output power deliver pulses of several tens to over 100 ns in duration. There exists another strong interest in high average power quasi-cw picosecond sources, which allow for the efficient generation of green and UV radiation, or even red-green-blue for laser video projection. Passive mode locking with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) is the preferred technique employed for the stable and self-starting generation of picosecond pulse trains, yet a high gain is necessary for achieving high repetition rates while avoiding the Q-switched mode-locking regime. Thus SESAM mode locking was applied to an 888 nm pumped oscillator, achieving 57 W of output power at a repetition-rate of 110 MHz and a pulse duration of 33 ps. Its output was efficiently amplified in a single pass up to 111 W without any beam quality, temporal, or spectral degradation. The high peak power of 30 kW allowed for the generation of 87 W of second harmonic at 532 nm with an efficiency of 80%, and 35 W of 355 nm third harmonic with a conversion efficiency of 33% in LBO crystals. The wide range of high-power systems demonstrated in this work illustrate the benefits of the optimized pumping of Nd:YVO4 at 888 nm, maintaining its highly-desirable characteristics such as a high gain and a polarized output while extending its power capabilities far beyond regular 808 nm pumped systems. This improvement should allow Nd:YVO4 systems to compete with high-power technologies such as disks and fibers, which often struggle in the generation of short pulses because of their low gain and strong non-linear effects, respectively.
Download or read book Directly Diode laser pumped Titanium doped Sapphire Lasers written by Peter Roth and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Titanium-doped sapphire is one of the most versatile laser gain materials. Tunable between 0.7 m and 1.1 m and capable of generating femtosecond pulses, the Ti:sapphire laser has become an important tool for many applications. Its ubiquitous use across many scientific disciplines is increasingly complemented by commercial applications including imaging, spectroscopy, micro-processing of materials and the generation of terahertz radiation. However, today's Ti:sapphire lasers are complex, bulky and expensive, leaving many applications unaddressed, particularly where lower costs and smaller footprints are vital. The biggest hurdle to smaller and cheaper Ti:sapphire lasers is the pump light source - typically a frequency-doubled, multi-watt neodymium or optically pumped semiconductor laser. Ideally, such intricate and expensive pump lasers would be replaced by compact, robust and cheap diode lasers. Two factors have prevented this: first, Ti:sapphire has a broad but relatively weak absorption in the blue-green region of the spectrum where high-power diode lasers are not currently available; and second, the very short upper laser level lifetime of Ti:sapphire and relatively large parasitic losses result in a high intrinsic laser threshold. Combined, these factors strongly favour high-brightness pump sources. The recent progress in diode lasers based on gallium nitride materials now opens the way to challenge the perceived wisdom that Ti:sapphire cannot be diode-pumped. In this work diode-laser pumping of Ti:sapphire lasers has been shown to be possible. The world's first diode-laser-pumped Ti:sapphire laser has been developed, enabling drastic reductions in cost and size over current systems. Using innovative approaches to exploit gallium nitride diode lasers as the pump source, both continuous-wave operation and generation of femtosecond pulses have been demonstrated. As a result, some of the unrivalled performance of today's high-cost, lab-bound Ti:sapphire lasers may soon be available at a fraction of the current cost and footprint.
Download or read book Ceramic Lasers written by Akio Ikesue and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently, ceramic materials were considered unsuitable for optics due to the numerous scattering sources, such as grain boundaries and residual pores. However, in the 1990s the technology to generate a coherent beam from ceramic materials was developed, and a highly efficient laser oscillation was realized. In the future, the technology derived from the development of the ceramic laser could be used to develop new functional passive and active optics. Co-authored by one of the pioneers of this field, the book describes the fabrication technology and theoretical characterization of ceramic material properties. It describes novel types of solid lasers and other optics using ceramic materials to demonstrate the application of ceramic gain media in the generation of coherent beams and light amplification. This is an invaluable guide for physicists, materials scientists and engineers working on laser ceramics.
Download or read book Solid State Lasers and Applications written by Alphan Sennaroglu and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of the favorable characteristics of solid-state lasers, they have become the preferred candidates for a wide range of applications in science and technology, including spectroscopy, atmospheric monitoring, micromachining, and precision metrology. Presenting the most recent developments in the field, Solid-State Lasers and Applications focuses on the design and applications of solid-state laser systems. With contributions from leading international experts, the book explores the latest research results and applications of solid-state lasers as well as various laser systems. The beginning chapters discuss current developments and applications of new solid-state gain media in different wavelength regions, including cerium-doped lasers in the ultraviolet range, ytterbium lasers near 1μm, rare-earth ion-doped lasers in the eye-safe region, and tunable Cr2+:ZnSe lasers in the mid-infrared range. The remaining chapters study specific modes of operation of solid-state laser systems, such as pulsed microchip lasers, high-power neodymium lasers, ultrafast solid-state lasers, amplification of femtosecond pulses with optical parametric amplifiers, and noise characteristics of solid-state lasers. Solid-State Lasers and Applications covers the most important aspects of the field to provide current, comprehensive coverage of solid-state lasers.
Download or read book Continuous Wave Diode Pumping and Pulsed Operation of Alexandrite Lasers Near 760 Nm and Tm3 YLF Lasers Near 2300 Nm written by İsmail Yorulmaz and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introduction to Laser Diode pumped Solid State Lasers written by Richard Scheps and published by SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering. This book was released on 2002 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text covers a wide range of material, from the basics of laser resonators to advanced topics in laser diode pumping. The subject matter is presented in descriptive terms that are understandable by the technical professional who does not have a strong foundation in fundamental laser topics.
Download or read book Diode Lasers in Neurosurgery written by François-Xavier Roux and published by John Libbey Eurotext. This book was released on 1999 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the result of the authors' many years of experience in using neurosurgical lasers. They began using laser diodes in their speciality at the start of the 1990s, making them pioneers in the field. The first part of the book deals with the general physical bases and comparative bio-tissue effects of the various kinds of surgical laser, safety measures required and legislation concerning powerful lasers. The second part focuses on laser diodes alone. The authors describe in detail how they use them to operate on intracranial and intraspinal tumours, in intraventricular endoscopy, and in surgery involving epilepsy. Details are given of: technical data; the choice of parameters depending on how the lasers are used (contact and non-contact, and the type of lesion being operated on) as well as their indications in neurosurgery. The authors emphasise the practical recommendations that make this book a valuable companion for current and potential users working in neurosurgery and other surgical applications. They also mention the new and future uses of laser diodes which are currently being developed and which show that this equipment really does represent a new generation of lasers. About 100 colour illustrations and tables are used to explain and underscore the authors' points.
Download or read book Lasers and Masers written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Lasers written by Marvin J. Weber and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lasers continue to be an amazingly robust field of activity. Anyone seeking a photon source is now confronted with an enormous number of possible lasers and laser wavelengths to choose from, but no single, comprehensive source to help them make that choice. The Handbook of Lasers provides an authoritative compilation of lasers, their properties, and original references in a readily accessible form. Organized by lasing media-solids, liquids, and gases-each section is subdivided into distinct laser types. Each type carries a brief description, followed by tables listing the lasing element or medium, host, lasing transition and wavelength, operating properties, primary literature citations, and, for broadband lasers, reported tuning ranges. The importance and value of the Handbook of Lasers cannot be overstated. Serving as both an archive and as an indicator of emerging trends, it reflects the state of knowledge and development in the field, provides a rapid means of obtaining reference data, and offers a pathway to the literature. It contains data useful for comparison with predictions and for developing models of processes, and may reveal fundamental inconsistencies or conflicts in the data.
Download or read book The Laser Guidebook written by Jeff Hecht and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1999-09-22 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition of a reference and tutorial introduction to the practical aspects of lasers--the functional characteristics vital to those who work with them. A few chapters describe basic principles; subsequent chapters are devoted to the various kinds of lasers, e.g. helium-neon, noble gas, helium-cadmium, carbon dioxide, chemical, copper and gold vapor, excimer, nitrogen, and others. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Understanding Lasers written by Jeff Hecht and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition is both accurate and easy to understand. Written for students, hobbyists, non-specialist engineers and anyone who wants an entry-level introduction to laser technology, this book provides practical, intuitive descriptions of the workings of major types of lasers and their applications. Key topics include: semiconductor lasers...solid-state lasers...gas lasers...laser applications in information processing, medicine, communications, industry and military systems. Clear, succinct, and amply illustrated, this book makes an ideal learning tool and a valuable reference for technical and nontechnical readers alike.
Download or read book Passively Mode locked Picosecond Nd KGW Laser with Low Quantum Defect Diode Pumping written by Md. Zubaer Eibna Halim and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solid-state lasers are capable of providing versatile output characteristics with greater flexibility compared to other popular laser systems. Lasing action has been achieved in many hundreds of solid-state media, but Nd-ion doped gain media are widely used to reach high power levels with short pulses. In this work, commercially available Nd:KGW crystal served as a gain medium to achieve pulsed operation at 1067 nm. This laser crystal offers large stimulated emission crosssection and gain bandwidth which facilitates generation of high peak power pulses in the picosecond regime. The KGW crystal is monoclinic and biaxial in structure, and anisotropic in its optical and thermal properties. Due to poor thermal conductivity, this crystal can be operated within a limited power range before crystal fracture takes place. To reduce the amount of heat deposited in the gain media, we introduced a new pumping wavelength of 910 nm which reduces the quantum defect by more than 45%. Continuous-wave laser operation was optimized to operate in mode-locked regime. In order to achieve short light pulses from the continuous-wave laser, one of the end mirrors was replaced by a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) to generate 2.4 ps pulses at a repetition rate of 83.8 MHz. An average output power of 87 mW was obtained at lasing wavelength of 1067 nm and the beam was nearly diffraction limited with M^2 1.18. The peak power of the generated pulses was 427 W and energy of each pulse was 1 nJ. Pumping the crystal at longer wavelength (910 nm) reduced the thermal lensing of the crystal by half when compared to conventional pumping at shorter wavelength (808 nm). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time passive mode-locking of a Nd:KGW laser was explored using the pump wavelength at 910 nm.
Download or read book Lasers and Masers written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book High Power Diode Lasers written by Roland Diehl and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting from the basics of semiconductor lasers with emphasis on the generation of high optical output power the reader is introduced in a tutorial way to all key technologies required to fabricate high-power diode-laser sources. Various applications are exemplified.
