Preface | |
Solid State Lasers | |
Introduction | p. 3 |
Crystalline Paramagnetic Ion Lasers | p. 5 |
Introduction | p. 5 |
Host Crystals Used for Transition Metal Laser Ions | p. 19 |
Host Crystals Used for Lanthanide Laser Ions | p. 20 |
Tables of Transition Metal Ion Lasers | p. 29 |
Tables of Divalent Lanthanide Ion Lasers | p. 36 |
Tables of Trivalent Lanthanide Ion Lasers | p. 37 |
Actinide Ion Lasers | p. 100 |
Other Ions and Crystals Exhibiting Gain | p. 101 |
Self-Frequency-Doubled Lasers | p. 101 |
Commercial Crystalline Transition Metal Ion Lasers | p. 103 |
Commercial Crystalline Lanthanide Ion Lasers | p. 104 |
References | p. 106 |
Glass Lasers | p. 161 |
Introduction | p. 161 |
Tables of Glass Lasers | p. 167 |
Glass Amplifiers | p. 181 |
Commercial Glass Lasers | p. 182 |
References | p. 183 |
Solid State Dye Lasers | p. 195 |
Introduction | p. 195 |
Dye Doped Organic Lasers | p. 196 |
Silica and Silica-Gel Dye Lasers | p. 205 |
Dye Doped Inorganic Crystal Lasers | p. 209 |
Dye Doped Glass Lasers | p. 209 |
Dye Doped Gelatin Lasers | p. 210 |
Dye Doped Biological Materials Lasers | p. 210 |
Commercial Solid State Dye Lasers | p. 210 |
References | p. 211 |
Color Center Lasers | p. 217 |
Introduction | p. 217 |
Centers and Crystals Used for Color Center Lasers | p. 219 |
Table of Color Center Lasers | p. 221 |
Commercial Color Center Lasers | p. 226 |
References | p. 226 |
Semiconductor Lasers | p. 231 |
Introduction | p. 231 |
II-VI Compound Lasers | p. 235 |
Mercury II-VI Compound Lasers | p. 237 |
III-V Compound Lasers | p. 238 |
III-V Compound Antimonide Lasers | p. 242 |
Nitride Lasers | p. 243 |
Lead IV-VI Compound Lasers | p. 244 |
Germanium-Silicon Intervalence Band Lasers | p. 245 |
Other Semiconductor Lasers | p. 246 |
Quantum Cascade and Intersubband Lasers | p. 247 |
Vertical Cavity Lasers | p. 249 |
Commercial Semiconductor Lasers | p. 251 |
References | p. 252 |
Polymer Lasers | p. 273 |
Introduction | p. 273 |
Pure Polymer Lasers | p. 274 |
Dye Doped Polymer Lasers | p. 278 |
Rare Earth Doped Polymer Lasers | p. 288 |
Solid State Excimer Lasers | p. 289 |
Raman, Brillouin, and Soliton Lasers | p. 291 |
Introduction | p. 291 |
Crystalline Raman Lasers | p. 292 |
Fiber Raman Lasers and Amplifiers | p. 295 |
Fiber Soliton Lasers | p. 296 |
Fiber Brillouin Lasers | p. 297 |
References | p. 298 |
Liquid Lasers | |
Liquid Organic Dye Lasers | p. 305 |
Introduction | p. 305 |
Chemical Nomenclature | p. 307 |
Tables of Liquid Organic Dye Lasers | p. 310 |
Commercial Dye Lasers | p. 360 |
Dye Laser Tuning Curves | p. 360 |
References | p. 367 |
Rare Earth Liquid Lasers | p. 375 |
Introduction | p. 375 |
Chelate Liquid Lasers | p. 375 |
Aprotic Liquid Lasers | p. 381 |
Liquid Polymer Lasers | p. 385 |
Liquid Excimer Lasers | p. 387 |
Gas Lasers | |
Introduction | p. 391 |
Neutral Atom Gas Lasers | p. 393 |
Introduction | p. 393 |
Tables of Neutral Atom Gas Lasers | p. 395 |
Ionized Gas Lasers | p. 463 |
Introduction | p. 463 |
Energy Level Diagrams | p. 465 |
Tables of Ionized Gas Lasers | p. 480 |
Molecular Gas Lasers | p. 531 |
Electronic Transition Gas Lasers | p. 531 |
Vibrational Transition Gas Lasers | p. 609 |
Far Infrared and Millimeter Wave Gas Lasers | p. 721 |
Introduction | p. 721 |
Tables of Atomic Far Infrared Gas Lasers | p. 723 |
Tables of Far Infrared and Millimeter Wave Gas Lasers | p. 725 |
Commercial Gas Lasers | p. 843 |
Comments | p. 847 |
References | p. 1031 |
Other Lasers | |
Extreme Ultraviolet and Soft X-Ray Lasers | p. 1113 |
Introduction | p. 1113 |
Lasing Transitions of H-like Ions | p. 1116 |
Lasing Transitions of Li-like Ions | p. 1117 |
Lasing Transitions of Be-like Ions | p. 1118 |
Lasing Transitions of Ne-like Ions | p. 1118 |
Lasing Transitions of Co-like Ions | p. 1122 |
Lasing Transitions of Ni-like Ions | p. 1122 |
Lasing Transitions of Pd-like Ions | p. 1124 |
References | p. 1125 |
Free Electron Lasers | p. 1129 |
Introduction | p. 1129 |
Short Wavelength Free Electron Lasers | p. 1131 |
Long Wavelength Free Electron Lasers | p. 1135 |
Nuclear Pumped Lasers | p. 1139 |
Introduction | p. 1139 |
Reactor Pumped Lasers | p. 1141 |
Nuclear Device Pumped Lasers | p. 1143 |
References | p. 1143 |
Natural Lasers | p. 1147 |
Inversionless Lasers | p. 1151 |
Amplification of Core-Valence Luminescence | p. 1155 |
Appendices | |
Laser Safety | p. 1159 |
Acronyms, Abbreviations, Initialisms, and Common Names for Types of Lasers, Laser Materials, Laser Structures and Operating Configurations, and Systems Involving Lasers | p. 1167 |
Electron Configurations of Neutral Atoms in the Ground State | p. 1179 |
Fundamental Physical Constants | p. 1183 |
Index | p. 1187 |
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