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Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources and Applications

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh

    1. ICREA - Instituticio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats, Spain

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  2. Irina T. Sorokina

    1. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

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  • Covers the most recent advances in mid-infrared optical science and technology
  • Is multidisciplinary by bringing together many aspects of mid-infrared technology in a comprehensive and focused volume
  • Covers both system engineering and development as well as applications
  • Is of interest to emerging scientific and technological applications in environment, photomedicine, photochemistry, life sciences, spectroscopy, safety and security

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Table of contents (22 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Crystalline Laser and Nonlinear Optical Materials for the Mid-IR

    1. New Monocrystals with Low Phonon Energy for Mid-IR Lasers

      • Ludmila Isaenko, Alexander Yelisseyev, Alexandra Tkachuk, Svetlana Ivanova
      Pages 3-65

    2. Orthorhombic Crystals of Lithium Thioindate and Selenoindate for Nonlinear Optics in the Mid-IR

      • J. -J. Zondy, V. Petrov, Alexander Yelisseyev, S. Lobanov, Ludmila Isaenko
      Pages 67-104

    3. Quaternary Nonlinear Optical Crystals for the Mid-Infrared Spectral Range from 5 to 12 μm

      • V. Petrov, V. Badikov, V. Panyutin
      Pages 105-147

    4. Microstructured Semiconductors for Mid-Infrared Nonlinear Optics

      • P. S. Kuo, M. M. Fejer
      Pages 149-168

  3. Sources in the Mid-IR

    1. Progress in Quantum Cascade Lasers

      • Jerome Faist, Thierry Aellen, Tobias Gresch, Mattias Beck, Marcella Giovannini
      Pages 171-192

    2. High-Brightness 2.X μm Semiconductor Lasers

      • M. Rattunde, M. T. Kelemen, N. Schulz, C. Pfahler, C. Manz, J. Schmitz et al.
      Pages 193-224

    3. Broadband Mid-Infrared Solid-State Lasers

      • Irina T. Sorokina
      Pages 225-260

    4. New Regimes of Excitation and Mid-IR Lasing of Transition Metal Doped II–VI Crystals

      • Sergey Mirov, Vladimir Fedorov
      Pages 261-314

    5. Advances in Mid-Infrared Fiber Lasers

      • Markus Pollnau, Stuart D. Jackson
      Pages 315-346

    6. Mid-Infrared Optical Parametric Oscillators and Applications

      • Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh
      Pages 347-375

    7. Mid-Infrared Integrated Optical Parametric Generators and Oscillators with Periodically Poled Ti:LiNbO3 Waveguides

      • S. Orlov, W. Grundkötter, D. Hofmann, V. Quiring, R. Ricken, H. Suche et al.
      Pages 377-392

    8. Optical Parametric Generators and Amplifiers

      • Valdas Pasiskevicius, Fredrik Laurell
      Pages 393-418

    9. Tunable THz Sources Based on Quasi-Phase-Matched Gallium Arsenide

      • Konstantin Vodopyanov
      Pages 419-441

    10. Semiconductor Waveguides for Nonlinear Frequency Conversion

      • L. Lanco, M. Ravaro, J. P. Likforman, P. Filloux, X. Marcadet, S. Ducci et al.
      Pages 443-463

  4. Applications

    1. Semiconductor Laser Based Trace Gas Sensor Technology: Recent Advances and Applications

      • F. K. Tittel, G. Wysocki, A. Kosterev, Y. Bakhirkin
      Pages 467-493

    2. Trace Gas Analysis with Isotopic Selectivity Using DFG-Sources

      • H. Waechter, M. Sigrist
      Pages 495-510

    3. Photoacoustic Spectroscopy Using Continuous Wave Optical Parametric Oscillators

      • Anthony K. Y. Ngai, Stefan T. Persijn, Maarten M. J. W. van Herpen, Simona M. Cristescu, Frans J. M. Harren
      Pages 511-533

    4. Online Monitoring of Exhaled Breath Using Mid-Infrared Laser Spectroscopy

      • Manfred Mürtz, Peter Hering
      Pages 535-555

    5. Ultrabroadband Solid-State Lasers in Trace Gas Sensing

      • Evgeni Sorokin
      Pages 557-574
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About this book

Coherent sources of mid-infrared (mid-IR) radiation are of great interest for a wide range of scienti?c and technological applications from spectroscopy and frequency metrology to information technology, industrial process control, pho- chemistry, photobiology and photomedicine. The mid-IR spectrum, which may be de?ned as wavelengths beyond ?2µm, covers important atmospheric windows, and numerous molecular gases, toxic agents, air, water, and soil pollutants, c- ponents of human breath, and several explosive agents have strong absorption ?ngerprints in this region. The development of practical coherent solid-state sources in the mid-IR can thus provide indispensable tools for a variety of - plications in environmental monitoring and pollution control, detection of water and soil contaminants, food quality control, agriculture and life sciences, and n- invasive disease diagnosis and therapy through breath analysis. Coherent mid-IR sources also offer important technologies for atmospheric chemistry, free-space communication, imaging, rapid detection of explosives, chemical and biological agents, nuclear material and narcotics, as well as applications in air- and sea-born safety and security, amongst many. The timely advancement of coherent mid-IR sources is, therefore, vital to future progress in many application areas across a broad range of scienti?c, technological, and industrial disciplines. On the other hand, more than 40 years after the invention of laser, much of the mid-IR spectrum still remains inaccessible to conventional lasers due to fun- mental limitations, most notably a lack of suitable crystalline laser gain materials.

Editors and Affiliations

  • ICREA - Instituticio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats, Spain

    Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh

  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

    Irina T. Sorokina

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