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The State of the Art in High-Power Laser Technology
Filled with full-color images, High-Power Laser Handbook offers comprehensive details on the latest advances in high-power laser development and applications : Performance parameters for each major class of lasers are described : The book covers high-power gas, chemical, and free-electron lasers and then discusses semiconductor diode lasers, along with the associated technologies of packaging, reliability, and beam shaping and delivery : Current research and development in solid-state lasers is described as well as scaling approaches for high CW powers, high pulse energies, and high peak powers : This authoritative work also addresses the emergence of fiber lasers and concludes by reviewing various methods 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 development
- Thin disk lasers
- Heat capacity lasers
- Ultrafast solid-state lasers
- Ultrafast lasers in the thin disk geometry
- The National Ignition Facility laser
- Optical fiber lasers
- Pulsed fiber lasers
- High-power ultrafast fiber laser systems
- High-power fiber lasers for industry and defense
- Beam combining
