Handbook of Laser Technology and Applications

<p>This comprehensive handbook gives a fully updated guide to lasers and laser technologies including the complete range of their technical applications. This forth volume covers laser applications in the medical metrology and communications fields. </p><p>Key Features: </p><p>• Offers a complete update of the original bestselling work including many brand-new chapters.</p><p>• Deepens the introduction to fundamentals from laser design and fabrication to host matrices for solid-state lasers energy level diagrams hosting materials dopant energy levels and lasers based on nonlinear effects.</p><p>• Covers new laser types including quantum cascade lasers silicon-based lasers titanium sapphire lasers terahertz lasers bismuth-doped fiber lasers and diode-pumped alkali lasers.</p><p>• Discusses the latest applications e.g. lasers in microscopy high-speed imaging attosecond metrology 3D printing optical atomic clocks time-resolved spectroscopy polarization and profile measurements pulse measurements and laser-induced fluorescence detection.</p><p>• Adds new sections on laser materials processing laser spectroscopy lasers in imaging lasers in environmental sciences and lasers in communications. </p><p>This handbook is the ideal companion for scientists engineers and students working with lasers including those in optics electrical engineering physics chemistry biomedicine and other relevant areas.</p>