Download or read book Advances In Laser Physics written by V S Letokhov and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-07-06 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birth of quantum electronics in the middle of the 20th century and the subsquent discovery of the laser led to new trends in physics and a number of photonic technolgies. This volume is dedicated to Peter Franken, a pioneer of nonlinear optics, and includes papers by the founders of quantum electronics, Aleksandr Prokhorov, Nicolaas Blombergen,

Download or read book Advanced Lasers written by Oleksiy Shulika and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a blend of applied and fundamental research in highly interdisciplinary subjects of rapidly developing areas, this book contains contributions on the frontiers and hot topics of laser physics, laser technology and laser engineering, and covers a wide range of laser topics, from all-optical signal processing and chaotic optical communication to production of superwicking surfaces, correction of extremely high-power beams, and generation of ultrabroadband spectra. It presents both review-type contributions and well researched and documented case studies, and is intended for graduate students, young scientist, and emeritus scientist working/studying in laser physics, optoelectronics, optics, photonics, and adjacent areas. The book contains both experimental and theoretical studies, as well as combinations of these two, which is known to be a most useful and interesting form of reporting scientific results, allowing students to really learn from each contribution. The book contains over 130 illustrations.

Download or read book Advances In Laser Physics written by V S Letokhov and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-07-06 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birth of quantum electronics in the middle of the 20th century and the subsquent discovery of the laser led to new trends in physics and a number of photonic technolgies. This volume is dedicated to Peter Franken, a pioneer of nonlinear optics, and includes papers by the founders of quantum electronics, Aleksandr Prokhorov, Nicolaas Blombergen, and Norman Ramsey. The topics covered range from astronomy to nuclear and semiconductor physics, and from fundamental problems in quantum mechanics to applications in novel laser materials and nanoscience.

Download or read book Lasers written by Hans Joachim Eichler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of laser sources and their applications in various fields of science, industry, and technology. After an introduction to the basics of laser physics, different laser types and materials for lasers are summarized in the context of a historical survey, outlining the evolution of the laser over the past five decades. This includes, amongst other aspects, gas lasers, excimer lasers, the wide range of solid-state and semiconductor lasers, and femtosecond and other pulsed lasers where particular attention is paid to high-power sources. Subsequent chapters address related topics such as laser modulation and nonlinear frequency conversion. In closing, the enormous importance of the laser is demonstrated by highlighting its current applications in everyday life and its potential for future developments. Typical applications in advanced material processing, medicine and biophotonics as well as plasma and X-ray generation for nanoscale lithography are discussed. The book provides broad and topical coverage of laser photonics and opto-electronics, focusing on significant findings and recent advances rather than in-depth theoretical studies. Thus, it is intended not only for university students and engineers, but also for scientists and professionals applying lasers in biomedicine, material processing and everyday consumer products. Further, it represents essential reading for engineers using or developing high-power lasers for scientific or industrial applications.

Download or read book Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science XV written by Kaoru Yamanouchi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers a diverse cross section of this interdisciplinary research field, with contributions grouped into four categories: laser-induced filamentation; atoms and molecules in a laser field; interaction of solid materials with a coherent light field; and ion acceleration and ionization of atoms in super intense laser fields. This book series presents up-to-date reviews of advances in this interdisciplinary research field, spanning atomic and molecular physics, as well as molecular and optical science, which have been stimulated by the recent developments in ultrafast laser technologies. Each book compiles peer-reviewed articles by researchers at the forefront of their particular subfields. All the chapters include an overview to allow graduate students and researchers unfamiliar with the subfield to grasp the importance and attractions of the topic covered, followed by reports of cutting-edge discoveries.

Download or read book Laser Physics written by Peter W. Milonni and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the basic principles of lasers have remained unchanged in the past 20 years, there has been a shift in the kinds of lasers generating interest. Providing a comprehensive introduction to the operating principles and applications of lasers, this second edition of the classic book on the subject reveals the latest developments and applications of lasers. Placing more emphasis on applications of lasers and on optical physics, the book's self-contained discussions will appeal to physicists, chemists, optical scientists, engineers, and advanced undergraduate students.

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Download or read book Advances in the Application of Lasers in Materials Science written by Paolo M. Ossi and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers recent advances and progress in understanding both the fundamental science of lasers interactions in materials science, as well as a special emphasis on emerging applications enabled by the irradiation of materials by pulsed laser systems. The different chapters illustrate how, by careful control of the processing conditions, laser irradiation can result in efficient material synthesis, characterization, and fabrication at various length scales from atomically-thin 2D materials to microstructured periodic surface structures. This book serves as an excellent resource for all who employ lasers in materials science, spanning such different disciplines as photonics, photovoltaics, and sensing, to biomedical applications.

Download or read book The Physics of Free Electron Lasers written by E.L. Saldin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Free Electron Laser (FEL) will be a crucial tool for research and industrial applications. This book describes the physical fundamentals of FELs on the basis of classical mechanics, electrodynamics, and the kinetic theory of charged particle beams, and will be suitable for graduate students and scientists alike. After a short introduction, the book discusses the theory of the FEL amplifier and oscillator, diffraction effects in the amplifier, and waveguide FEL.

Download or read book Strong Field Laser Physics written by Thomas Brabec and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-08-17 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to the rapid progress in laser technology a wealth of novel fundamental and applied applications of lasers in atomic and plasma physics have become possible. This book focuses on the interaction of high intensity lasers with matter. It reviews the state of the art of high power laser sources, intensity laser-atom and laser-plasma interactions, laser matter interaction at relativistic intensities, and QED with intense lasers.

Download or read book Emerging Laser Technologies for High power and Ultrafast Science written by François Légaré and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging Laser Technologies for High-Power and Ultrafast Science includes chapters from leading experts devoted to the most recent achievements in the field. Including cutting-edge topics such as high energy/high average power laser systems, the most current developments for high repetition rate high average power infrared fiber laser systems, breakthroughs of the development of CPA based on chromium doped zinc selenide gain material, infrared/mid-infrared laser systems based on high average power Ytterbium pumped OPCPA, and generation of ultrashort laser pulses in the UV spectral range. This book will serve as an important reference for students, researchers, scientists, and engineers interested in the development of next generation of ultrafast laser technologies.

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Download or read book Laser Physics written by Simon Hooker and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date perspective on laser technology for students at advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate level. The principles of operation and applications of modern laser systems are analysed in detail. The text has over 300 diagrams and each chapter is accompanied with questions (solutions available on application).

Download or read book Femtosecond Laser Pulses written by Claude Rulliere and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-27 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This smooth introduction for advanced undergraduates starts with the fundamentals of lasers and pulsed optics. Thus prepared, the student is introduced to short and ultrashort laser pulses, and learns how to generate, manipulate, and measure them. Spectroscopic implications are also discussed. The second edition has been completely revised and includes two new chapters on some of the most promising and fast-developing applications in ultrafast phenomena: coherent control and attosecond pulses.

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Download or read book Recent Advances In Laser Dynamics Control And Synchronization written by Alexander N. Pisarchik and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the first time chaos could be controlled, for the last quarter of century, a diversity of publications have been devoted to the development of new control schemes and their applications to different laser systems. This book assembles several review papers which analyze and describe the most important achievements in controlling laser dynamics and synchronization of laser systems. The papers report a variety of interesting dynamical phenomena encountered in different types of lasers and related to control techniques. For the last 20 years laser physics and nonlinear dynamics have undergone a crucial progress. Understanding lasers as dynamical systems involves concepts associated mostly with the nonlinear nature of these systems. Since the appearance of the pioneering work of E. Ott, C. Grebogi and J. A. Yorke in 1990, who proposed a method for controlling chaos, active attempts for applying this method and other control methods to laser systems have been conducted. Many research works were directed not only to the observation and identification of dynamical regimes in lasers, but also to control laser dynamics and chaos. Considerable progress has been made in research and development of semiconductor and fiber lasers. The special interest these lasers stir up is explained by their easy operation, small size, low price, and, of course, their successful application in communications. However, in spite of the huge progress in laser physics and nonlinear dynamics, only few reviews have been devoted to this topic. The book has an interdisciplinary character because the topic of this book is a great mixture of four big areas of science: laser physics, nonlinear dynamics, control theory, and synchronization. Each area was developed independently till the first nonlinear control of laser dynamics has been realized. The aim of this book is to address a broad readership: students, researchers, engineers, technicians, who work with lasers, as well as scientists conducting interdisciplinary research; it is intended for both theoreticians and experimentalists. The intention of this book is to give the reader a good understanding of nonlinear laser dynamics, not only in one specific type of laser but rather in many different types of lasers, as each control method or coupling is introduced. Four chapters of the book are devoted to laser dynamics control and describe the most important achievements of the last two decades in this topic. These chapters review already classical and relatively new results on stabilizing unstable periodic orbits in chaotic lasers and other control methods providing the reader with an extensive bibliography. The book also contains four chapters devoted to synchronization of coupled lasers. Special attention in the book is given to experimental applications of different control methods and synchronization phenomena in different laser systems. Editing this book has been a rewarding experience for me. Since 1979, I have been associated with lasers, beginning as a postgraduate student at the Institute of Physics of the Belarus Academy of Sciences in Minsk when I helped build a CO2 laser for a research project under Professor Vladimir V. Churakov direction. He was the first person to instil in me an enthusiasm for optics and light. I then was very fortunate to do my thesis work under supervision of Academician of the Byelorussian Academy of Sciences Boris Ivanovich Stepanov, who encouraged me to reduce ideas to simple concepts. Being very diligent, he nonetheless, also was a cheery person. He used to say that a real scientist has to work more than 24 hours per day, write monographs and must never stay too much time in one research area, but should change direction from time to time. I also thank Dr. Boris F. Kuntsevich for helping me to understand the fundamental theory of laser oscillations. At that time, in the late 70s - early 80s, since there were no personal computers we had to search for analytical solutions of laser equations. This was a good exercise to learn the foundation of laser physics. I am grateful to my colleagues Drs. Vladimir O. Petukhov and Ivan M. Bertel, who played a key role in my experimental practice helping me to install and equip my first experimental setup. Being a part of a stimulating group of young researchers at the Laboratory of General Spectroscopy during the growth of the field of laser spectroscopy was an unparalleled opportunity. We built CO2 lasers and tried to stabilize them for spectroscopy applications. For a long period of time Dr. Viacheslav N. Chizhevsky and I worked together, he got me involved in the world of chaos and helped me take my first steps into numerical simulations with MATLAB; together we carried out many experiments with CO2 lasers. He shared his ideas with me and I deeply appreciate all our fruitful discussions. Back then, we thought (about) laser was a stable device and treated any instabilities and chaos as a consequence of mechanical vibrations or bad alignment. It was only in 1964 that the Russian physicists A. Z. Grazyuk and A. N. Oraevskii found in numerical studies of the equations describing a simplest (homogeneously broadened, single-mode, traveling wave, resonantly tuned) laser, a time-dependent solution that consisted of pulses, varying irregularly with time. They even used at that time the term chaotic to describe this irregular pulsing behavior. Laser dynamics stagnated in a rudimentary state for more than one decade until in 1975, when the German theoretical physicist G. Haken concluded, from the isomorphy of a laser with Lorenz equations, that lasers could exhibit a non-periodic, pulsing emission, that is a chaotic emission. Even though, in the early 80s we did not believe that the Lorenz-Haken instability was inherent to real laser systems; thinking it was only an academic curiosity invented by theoreticians far removed from the daily reality of experimental laser physics, nonlinear laser dynamics was born and in 1982 after the first clear experimental evidence of laser chaos, was baptized by F. T. Arecchi These results, sharpening the perception of lasers as unstable systems, were then followed by a large number of experimental and theoretical investigations. Many researchers tried to exploit the new acquired knowledge of laser dynamics in some applications. Even though, the principal aim was still focused on avoiding instabilities to obtain a stable laser emission. Curiously, we had observed chaos in a bidirectional ring CO2 laser long before it was discovered by Prof. Arecchi's group. However, we did not pay serious attention to these findings, thinking it was the same chaotic behavior that had been previously observed in solid-state lasers. Moreover, we could not even publish our results in public scientific journals because in the Soviet Union of the 80's, during the period of Cold War, laser subjects were classified as top secret and not even the word laser was allowed to be used in open scientific literature. To evade this ban and get permission to publish our results, we had to replace the word laser by synonym words optical quantum generator . Many scientists who dealt with lasers were not allowed to go abroad and participate in international conferences. I was mainly a laser experimentalist until 1997, when I went to Canada with my own means to participate in the Summer School on Nonlinear Dynamics in Biology and Medicine organized by Leon Glass and Michael C. Mackey at McGill University in Montreal, where we took very useful lectures and practical exercises on theoretical modeling of physiological systems. Thanks to these lectures I came to realize that the world obeys universal dynamical laws, and also discovered for myself that many phenomena observed in lasers are present in a wide class of dynamical systems. This instilled in me the idea that a laser can serve as a very useful instrument to elaborate new methods for controlling nonlinear dynamics and chaos, which can be applied then to other systems, including biological and medical ones. Professor Arecchi and coworkers developed the same idea in their recent works; they do mention such similarity in the first chapter of this book. During the economically difficult period of the perestroika many scientists from the former Soviet Union had to abandon science and either go work for the industry or establish their own business. Some of the science-loving researchers who yet insisted on working at universities and research institutes had to paint roofs and towers or buy and resell things in order to survive. Many of us were looking for a job abroad. I was very fortunate to be invited first in 1992 by Professor Michel Herman from Physical Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Brussels where I spent three months working with dye lasers and fast Fourier spectroscopy. Then, thanks to Professor Ramón Corbalán who invited me to create the Laboratory of Infrared and Far Infrared Lasers at Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, I spent almost seven years in Spain, where we carried out a series of interesting experiments on laser dynamics control. During that period I was happy to visit other universities and laser laboratories, such as the laboratory of Professor Pierre Glorieux at Université de Lille (France) and Professor Fortunato Tito Arecchi at Institute de Ottica Applicata in Florence (Italy), where we carried out several collaborative experiments with CO2 lasers. I also thank Professor Ari Olafson for the kind hospitality he extended to me in Reykjavik where I spent four unforgivable months in 1996 working at the University of Iceland. Finally, to round out my scientific carrier I was invited to Mexico in 1999 where I presently work as a Research Professor at Centro de Investigaciones en Optica in Leon, Guanajuato. I wish to thank Dr. Vicente Aboites, physicist and philosopher, for his kind invitation. Although the laser technology in Mexico is not yet advanced, the government is making a great effort to help develop national laser science and technology. I thank CONACYT (National Council for Science and Technology) for partial support of the publication of this book through project No. 46973-E, in particular, and research on lasers and applications, in general. Working in the field of lasers and nonlinear dynamics at several different institutions has provided me with a broad perspective that I hope has successfully contributed to the manner in which many of the concepts are presented in this book. I thank all of the authors who contributed to this book and to the reviewers who worked under great time pressure to complete the reviewing process in a relatively short time. I sincerely hope this book will stimulate new discussions and fundamental issues to a deeper level of understanding of laser dynamics and to develop new approaches to control and synchronization of laser systems. The results of this exercise could be also useful on the definition of scientific and technological programs related to this topic.