ABSTRACT
Broadly tunable lasers continue to have a tremendous impact in many and diverse fields of science and technology. From a renaissance in laser spectroscopy to Bose-Einstein condensation, the one nexus is the tunable laser. Tunable Laser Applications describes the physics and architectures of widely applied tunable laser sources. Fully updated and ex
Introduction. Spectroscopic Applications of Tunable Optical Parametric Oscillators. Solid-State Organic Dye Lasers. Organic Dye-Doped Polymer-Nanoparticle Tunable Lasers. Broadly Tunable External-Cavity Semiconductor Lasers. Tunable Fiber Lasers. Fiber Laser Overview and Medical Applications. Medical Applications of Organic Dye Lasers. Tunable Laser Microscopy. Interferometric Imaging. Tunable Laser Atomic Vapor Laser Isotope Separation. Coherent Electrically Excited Organic Semiconductors. Multiple-Prism Arrays and Multiple-Prism Beam Expanders: Laser Optics and Scientific Applications. Optical Quantities and Conversions of Units.
