Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources and Applications

2008
ISBN: 978-1-4020-6462-3
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, 626 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1076 g

Reihe: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics

Coherent sources of mid-infrared (mid-IR) radiation are of great interest for a wide range of scienti?c and technological applications from spectroscopy and frequency metrology to information technology, industrial process control, pho- chemistry, photobiology and photomedicine. The mid-IR spectrum, which may be de?ned as wavelengths beyond ?2µm, covers important atmospheric windows, and numerous molecular gases, toxic agents, air, water, and soil pollutants, c- ponents of human breath, and several explosive agents have strong absorption ?ngerprints in this region. The development of practical coherent solid-state sources in the mid-IR can thus provide indispensable tools for a variety of - plications in environmental monitoring and pollution control, detection of water and soil contaminants, food quality control, agriculture and life sciences, and n- invasive disease diagnosis and therapy through breath analysis. Coherent mid-IR sources also offer important technologies for atmospheric chemistry, free-space communication, imaging, rapid detection of explosives, chemical and biological agents, nuclear material and narcotics, as well as applications in air- and sea-born safety and security, amongst many. The timely advancement of coherent mid-IR sources is, therefore, vital to future progress in many application areas across a broad range of scienti?c, technological, and industrial disciplines. On the other hand, more than 40 years after the invention of laser, much of the mid-IR spectrum still remains inaccessible to conventional lasers due to fun- mental limitations, most notably a lack of suitable crystalline laser gain materials.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sorokina, Irina T.

Ebrahim-Zadeh, Majid

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Physik, Chemie für Ingenieure
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Festkörperphysik, Kondensierte Materie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Experimentalphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Soziophysik, Wirtschaftsphysik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Crystalline Laser and Nonlinear Optical Materials for the Mid-IR.- New Monocrystals with Low Phonon Energy for Mid-IR Lasers.- Orthorhombic Crystals of Lithium Thioindate and Selenoindate for Nonlinear Optics in the Mid-IR.- Quaternary Nonlinear Optical Crystals for the Mid-Infrared Spectral Range from 5 to 12 ?m.- Microstructured Semiconductors for Mid-Infrared Nonlinear Optics.- Sources in the Mid-IR.- Progress in Quantum Cascade Lasers.- High-Brightness 2.X ?m Semiconductor Lasers.- Broadband Mid-Infrared Solid-State Lasers.- New Regimes of Excitation and Mid-IR Lasing of Transition Metal Doped II–VI Crystals.- Advances in Mid-Infrared Fiber Lasers.- Mid-Infrared Optical Parametric Oscillators and Applications.- Mid-Infrared Integrated Optical Parametric Generators and Oscillators with Periodically Poled Ti:LiNbO3 Waveguides.- Optical Parametric Generators and Amplifiers.- Tunable THz Sources Based on Quasi-Phase-Matched Gallium Arsenide.- Semiconductor Waveguides for Nonlinear Frequency Conversion.- Applications.- Semiconductor Laser Based Trace Gas Sensor Technology: Recent Advances and Applications.- Trace Gas Analysis with Isotopic Selectivity Using DFG-Sources.- Photoacoustic Spectroscopy Using Continuous Wave Optical Parametric Oscillators.- Online Monitoring of Exhaled Breath Using Mid-Infrared Laser Spectroscopy.- Ultrabroadband Solid-State Lasers in Trace Gas Sensing.- Medical Applications of Mid-IR Solid-State Lasers.- Opportunities for Mid-IR Sources in Intense-Field and Attosecond Physics.- Ultrawideband Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nanostructures.