Handbook of Lasers

"The Handbooks are particularly valued for their breadth and authoritytheir success has undoubtedly been due to the most professional approach and guidance of the Editor-in-Chief, Marvin Weber, who has had a most distinguished and active research career in the laser field."
-C.L.M. Ireland in Optics & Laser Technology, 30, 1998

Autorentext
Marvin J. Weber

Klappentext

The Handbook of Lasers is an extremely comprehensive and up-to-date compilation of the properties of lasers in all media. This publication contains a combination of numerical and graphical data presented in the Handbook of Laser Science and Technology along with more recent developments and presented in a concise volume. Lasers are grouped by type solid, liquid, and gas. The entries include the properties of crystalline, paramagnetic ion lasers, glass lasers, color center lasers, semi-conductor lasers and more. X-ray lasers and free electron lasers are also covered.

Zusammenfassung

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.

Inhalt
Solid State Lasers. Liquid Lasers. Gas Lasers. Other Lasers. Appendices.