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LASER MATERIALS
by Fuxi Gan (Shanghai Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics, Academia Sinica, China)
This book focuses mainly on the spectroscopy of laser materials, physics of laser materials, laser crystals and laser glasses. The spectroscopic and laser properties of rare earth and transition metal ion-doped solid state materials are systematically described based on modern quantum optics. The aim of this book is to relate the laser and spectroscopic properties to the structure and chemical composition of materials. It emphasises the nonlinear optical effects in laser materials, which are widely used in high power laser systems. The development of advanced solid state laser devices depends greatly on new laser materials. Much progress has been made recently in the development of new laser materials, and this is summarized in the book.
Contents:
- Optical Spectroscopy of Laser Materials:
- Fundamentals
of Optical Spectroscopy of Paramagnetic Centers in Dielectric Solids
- Spectroscopy of Transition Metal Ions (3d, 4d) in Dielectric Solids
- Spectroscopy of Rare Earth Ions in Dielectric Solids
- Physics of Laser Materials:
- Laser Fundamentals
- Physical Properties of Laser Materials
- Nonlinear Optical Properties of Laser Materials
- Laser Induced Damage in Laser Materials
- Defects in Laser Materials
- Laser Crystals:
- Crystal Growth and Structural Chemistry of Laser Crystals
- Rare Earth Ions Doped Laser Crystals
- Transition Metal Ions Doped Laser Crystals
- Tunable Laser Crystals
- Laser Glasses:
- Structure and Laser Emission of Laser Glasses
- Neodymium Laser Glasses
- Laser Glass Fibers
Readership: Chemists, physicists and materials scientists.
| 364pp |
Pub. date: Aug 1995 |
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