Tunable Laser Applications

Broadly tunable lasers continue to have a tremendous impact in many and diverse fields of science and technology. From a renaissance in laser spectroscopy to Bose–Einstein condensation, the one nexus is the tunable laser. Tunable Laser Applications describes the physics and architectures of widely applied tunable laser sources. Fully updated and expanded to address important advances in the science and technology, this Third Edition: Contains new chapters on tunable laser microscopy and tunable laser atomic vapor laser isotope separation Offers extended coverage of optical parametric oscillators and their application to atmospheric sensing, biomedicine, defense counter measures, microscopy, and spectroscopy Discusses exciting new applications in astronomy, defense R&D, medicine, and more Featuring fresh contributions from internationally recognized experts—including 100+ new pages and extensive reference listings—Tunable Laser Applications, Third Edition provides a timely account of the most promising tunable laser applications to date.

IntroductionF. J. Duarte Spectroscopic Applications of Tunable Optical Parametric OscillatorsBrian J. Orr, John G. Haub, Yabai He, and Richard T. White Solid-State Organic Dye LasersAngel Costela, I. García-Moreno, and R. Sastre Organic Dye-Doped Polymer-Nanoparticle Tunable LasersF. J. Duarte and R. O. James Broadly Tunable External-Cavity Semiconductor LasersF. J. Duarte Tunable Fiber LasersT. M. Shay and F. J. Duarte Fiber Laser Overview and Medical ApplicationsS. Popov Medical Applications of Organic Dye LasersA. Costela, I. García-Moreno, and C. Gómez Tunable Laser MicroscopyF. J. Duarte Interferometric ImagingF. J. Duarte Tunable Laser Atomic Vapor Laser Isotope SeparationF. J. Duarte Coherent Electrically Excited Organic SemiconductorsF. J. Duarte Multiple-Prism Arrays and Multiple-Prism Beam Expanders: Laser Optics and Scientific ApplicationsF. J. Duarte Optical Quantities and Conversions of UnitsF. J. Duarte

F. J. Duarte is a research physicist with Interferometric Optics, Rochester, New York, USA, and an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico, USA. His career as a laser physicist encompasses academia, industry, and the defense establishment. He holds a Ph.D in physics from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, where he was a student of the famed quantum physicist J. C. Ward. Dr. Duarte is the author of the generalized multiple-prism dispersion theory, has made unique contributions to the physics and architecture of tunable laser oscillators, and pioneered the use of Dirac’s quantum notation in interferometry, oscillator physics, and classical optics.