Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources and Applications / edited by Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh, Irina T. Sorokina.

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Crystalline Laser and Nonlinear Optical Materials for the Mid-IR -- New Monocrystals with Low Phonon Energy for Mid-IR Lasers -- Orthorhombic Crystals of Lithium Thioindate and Selenoindate for Nonlinear Optics in the Mid-IR -- Quaternary Nonlinear Optical Crystals for the Mid-Infrared Spectral Range from 5 to 12 ?m -- Microstructured Semiconductors for Mid-Infrared Nonlinear Optics -- Sources in the Mid-IR -- Progress in Quantum Cascade Lasers -- High-Brightness 2.X ?m Semiconductor Lasers -- Broadband Mid-Infrared Solid-State Lasers -- New Regimes of Excitation and Mid-IR Lasing of Transition Metal Doped II–VI Crystals -- Advances in Mid-Infrared Fiber Lasers -- Mid-Infrared Optical Parametric Oscillators and Applications -- Mid-Infrared Integrated Optical Parametric Generators and Oscillators with Periodically Poled Ti:LiNbO3 Waveguides -- Optical Parametric Generators and Amplifiers -- Tunable THz Sources Based on Quasi-Phase-Matched Gallium Arsenide -- Semiconductor Waveguides for Nonlinear Frequency Conversion -- Applications -- Semiconductor Laser Based Trace Gas Sensor Technology: Recent Advances and Applications -- Trace Gas Analysis with Isotopic Selectivity Using DFG-Sources -- Photoacoustic Spectroscopy Using Continuous Wave Optical Parametric Oscillators -- Online Monitoring of Exhaled Breath Using Mid-Infrared Laser Spectroscopy -- Ultrabroadband Solid-State Lasers in Trace Gas Sensing -- Medical Applications of Mid-IR Solid-State Lasers -- Opportunities for Mid-IR Sources in Intense-Field and Attosecond Physics -- Ultrawideband Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nanostructures.

This volume represents a collection of authoritative reviews by internationally recognized experts in the field of middle infrared (mid-IR) coherent sources and their applications. The compilation describes the fundamental principles and state-of-the-art of practical solid-state sources in the mid-IR regions of the spectrum covering the 2-50 µm range. The described sources include, along with more traditional heterojunction semiconductor lasers, optical parametric oscillators, difference frequency generators, as well as the most recently developed broadband crystalline, quantum cascade and fiber lasers. The rapid advances in mid-IR science and technology have made these sources indispensable tools for a variety of applications in environmental monitoring and pollution control, agriculture and life sciences, and non-invasive disease diagnosis 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, narcotics, as well as for applications in air- and sea-borne security. In comparison to the previous volume on this subject in 2003, which focused mainly on the design and development of mid-IR sources, the emphasis in the present volume is shifted towards applications. The instructive nature of the book makes it an excellent text for practicing engineers, physicists and graduate students, who intend to develop or use mid-IR laser sources in various applications.

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