Solid State Lasers New Developments and Applications

This volume contains the lectures and seminars presented at the NATO Ad­ vanced Study Institute on "Solid State Lasers: New Developments and Appli­ cations" the fifteenth course of the Europhysics School of Quantum Electronics, held under the supervision of the Quantum Electronics Division...

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Other Authors: Inguscio, Massimo (Editor), Wallenstein, Richard (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1993, 1993
Edition:1st ed. 1993
Series:NATO Science Series B:, Physics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Resonator Designs for High Brightness Solid-State Lasers
  • Defining and Measuring Laser Beam Quality
  • Mode-Locked Solid State Lasers
  • High Power Rod, Slab, and Tube Lasers
  • Solid-State Laser Materials: Basic Properties and New Developments
  • Quantum Confined Semiconductor Lasers
  • Diode Pumped Solid State Lasers
  • Generation of Visible Light with Diode Pumped Solid State Lasers
  • High Power Diode Lasers
  • Efficient Narrowband Optical Parametric Oscillators of Beta-Barium-Borate (BBO) and Lithium-Triborate (LBO)
  • Travelling Wave Parametric Generation of Highly Coherent Femtosecond Pulses Tunable from 750 to 3000 nm
  • Frequency Conversion of PS-Pulses: Tunable Pulses from the UV to the Near Infrared
  • Quasi-Three-Level Lasers
  • Er, Tm, Ho: YLF Lasers in Astigmatically Compensated Resonators
  • Color Center Lasers: State of the Art and Recent Developments
  • Fibre Lasers
  • The Role of Solid State Lasers in Soft-X-Ray Projection Lithography
  • Second Harmonic Generation and its Application to High Resolution Spectroscopy of Atomic Hydrogen
  • Diode Lasers and Metrology
  • Semiconductor Diode Lasers in Atomic Spectroscopy
  • Overtone Molecular Spectroscopy with Diode Lasers
  • Optical Frequency Metrology with Solid State Lasers
  • Frequency Stabilized TI:Sapphire Laser for High Resolution Spectroscopy of Atomic Hydrogen