Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources and Applications

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

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.

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• 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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