Pulsed Metal Vapour Lasers
A comprehensive, up-to-date review of the physics and applications of a major class of laser, the most important example of which is the copper vapour laser. A collection of 50 papers written by the world's leaders in the field. Papers cover: the early history of pulsed metal vapour lasters; th...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1996, 1996
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1996 |
| Series: | NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 1, Disarmament Technologies
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Frequency extension of metal vapour lasers
- Transformation of copper and copper bromide laser radiation in non-linear processes
- High power dye laser pumping by copper vapour lasers
- Amplification of the temporally stretched yellow beam of the copper vapour laser
- 7. Applications in Industry
- Precision machining with copper vapour lasers
- Industrial applications of high-power copper vapor lasers
- Exploring high power materials processing applications with copper vapour lasers
- Copper laser machining of ceramics
- Drilling and cutting transparent substrates with copper vapour lasers
- UV micromachining using copper vapour lasers, D.W. Coutts
- Underwater direct metal processing by high-power copper vapour laser
- Applications of CVLs in the electronics industry
- Laser induced chemical etching of silicon with SF6 using a copper bromide vapour laser
- 8. Applications in Medicine
- MVL parameter management through electron plasma component
- Novel circuits for the excitation of metal vapour lasers
- Novel low-temperature pulsed metal-vapour lasers — the high-voltage segmented hollow-cathode metal ion laser
- Measurement of “hot spots” in copper vapour lasers
- 4. Modelling Metal Vapour Lasers
- Computer modelling of longitudinally excited elemental copper vapour lasers
- Impedance matching and electric field penetration in metal vapour lasers
- Physical consequences of the rapid drop of the electron temperature in copper vapour laser (CVL)
- 5. Optical Resonators and Beam Quality
- Beam quality issues in CVL applications
- Beam quality issues in copper vapour lasers
- Advances in unstable resonator technology for pulsed metal vapor lasers
- Beam quality issues for the second harmonic generation of copper vapour radiation
- Spectral control incopper bromide lasers and its application in high speed holography
- 6. Frequency Extension
- Treatment of port-wine stains with the 578 nm light from a copper vapour laser and an automated scanning device
- Metal vapour laser systems in biology and medicine
- Copper vapour lasers in oncology
- 9. Applications in Science & Technology
- Applications of copper vapour lasers in spectroscopy
- The use of copper vapor lasers in guide-star applications
- Interaction of CVL radiation with solids: application to mass spectrometry
- Applications of pulsed metal vapour lasers in atmospheric optics
- Optical systems with metal vapour brightness amplifiers
- 10. Collated Characteristics of Some Commercial Pulsed Metal Vapour Lasers
- 11. Contact List of Participants
- 1. Historical Viewpoints
- Pulsed metal vapor lasers: past and future
- Copper lasers in the beginning
- 2. Physics of Pulsed Metal Vapour Lasers
- Copper laser kinetics — a comparative study
- Kinetics of metal vapour and metal halide lasers
- Kinetics of metal ion recombination lasers
- Experimental studies of CVL kinetics
- Physics of transverse-discharge copper vapour lasers
- Investigation of bismuth vapour lasers
- 3. Laser Characteristics and Operation
- Plasma parameters of metal vapour lasers
- High-power copper vapour lasers and applications
- Copper bromide lasers
- Metal HyBrID lasers
- Output limiting mechanisms and the prospects for metal vapour lasers with average output power above 1 kW/m
- Strontium and calcium ion recombination lasers and their applications
- The effects of impurities on metal vapour laser performance
- Influence of hydrogen on the kinetics of copper bromide lasers