1224 Pages
    by CRC Press

    1226 Pages
    by CRC Press

    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.

    SOLID STATE LASERS
    Introduction
    Crystalline Paramagnetic Ion Lasers
    Glass Lasers
    Solid State Dye Lasers
    Color Center Lasers
    Semiconductor Lasers
    Polymer Lasers
    Solid State Excimer Lasers
    Raman Brillouin, and Soliton Lasers
    LIQUID LASERS
    Liquid Organic Dye Lasers
    Rare Earth Liquid Lasers
    Liquid Polymer Lasers
    Liquid Excimer Lasers
    GAS LASERS
    Introduction
    Neutral Atom Gas Lasers
    Ionized Gas Lasers
    Molecular Gas Lasers
    Far Infrared and Millimeter Wave Gas Lasers
    Commercial Gas Lasers
    Comments
    References
    OTHER LASERS
    Extreme Ultraviolet and Soft X-Ray Lasers
    Free Electron Lasers
    Nuclear Pumped Lasers
    Natural Lasers
    Inversionless Lasers
    Amplification of Core-Valence Luminescence
    APPENDICES
    Laser Safety
    Acronyms, Abbreviations, Initialisms, and Common Names for Types of Lasers, Laser Materials, Laser Structures and Operating Configurations, and Systems Involving Lasers
    Electron Configurations of Neutral Atoms in the Ground State
    Fundamental Constants

    Biography

    Marvin J. Weber

    "The Handbooks are particularly valued for their breadth and authority…their 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