High Power Laser Handbook - download pdf or read online

By Hagop Injeyan, Gregory Goodno
ISBN-10: 0071609016
ISBN-13: 9780071609012
ISBN-10: 0071609024
ISBN-13: 9780071609029
The state-of-the-art in High-Power Laser Technology
Filled with full-color photos, High-Power Laser Handbook deals complete info at the most recent advances in high-power laser improvement and functions. functionality parameters for every significant classification of lasers are defined. The booklet covers high-power gasoline, chemical, and free-electron lasers after which discusses semiconductor diode lasers, besides the linked applied sciences of packaging, reliability, and beam shaping and supply. present learn and improvement in solid-state lasers is defined in addition to scaling techniques for prime CW powers, excessive pulse energies, and excessive height powers. This authoritative paintings additionally addresses the emergence of fiber lasers and concludes by means of reviewing numerous equipment for beam combining.
Coverage Includes:
- Carbon dioxide lasers
- Excimer lasers
- Chemical lasers
- High-power free-electron lasers
- Semiconductor laser diodes
- High-power diode laser arrays
- Introduction to high-power solid-state lasers
- Zig-zag slab lasers
- ThinZag high-power laser improvement
- Thin disk lasers
- Heat means lasers
- Ultrafast solid-state lasers
- Ultrafast lasers within the skinny disk geometry
- The nationwide Ignition Facility laser
- Optical fiber lasers
- Pulsed fiber lasers
- High-power ultrafast fiber laser platforms
- High-power fiber lasers for and safeguard
- Beam combining