Download Field Guide to Lasers (SPIE Field Guide Vol. FG12) by Rudiger Paschotta PDF

By Rudiger Paschotta

This advisor offers an outline at the crucial forms of lasers and their key houses in addition to an creation into an important actual and technological features of lasers. except describing the fundamental ideas (such as influenced emission and the homes of optical resonators), this advisor discusses the various vital houses of laser crystals, the effect of thermal results on laser functionality, equipment of wavelength tuning and pulse iteration, and laser noise. Practitioners also will achieve important perception from feedback on laser defense and procure new principles approximately tips to make the laser improvement approach extra efficient.

Contents

- word list of Symbols
- easy rules of Lasers
- Laser Beams
- Optical Resonators
- Waveguides
- Semiconductor Lasers
- Solid-State Bulk Lasers
- Fiber and Waveguide Lasers
- Dye Lasers
- gasoline Lasers
- different forms of Lasers
- Narrow-Linewidth Operation
- Tunable Lasers
- Q Switching
- achieve Switching
- Mode Locking
- hollow space Dumping
- Nonlinear Frequency Conversion
- Laser Noise
- Laser defense
- layout and improvement
- Bibliography
- Index

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Good resonator designs require a combination of physical understanding, practical experience, and flexible software. A powerful numerical method for resonator design is to define a figure of merit (FOM), calculated as the sum of “penalties” for all nonideal properties, and to minimize that FOM with numerical techniques by varying resonator arm lengths and possibly mirror curvatures. Because the FOM often has a huge number of local extrema, a Monte Carlo method is often required to find the global optimum or at least a good solution.

They are often rivaled by distributed Bragg reflectors or distributed feedback laser diodes. Semiconductor Lasers 37 Broad-Area Laser Diodes For higher output powers, the width of the emitting region can be increased from a few microns (as in typical low-power diodes) to 50 μm, 100 μm, or 200 μm. Several watts of output power can be obtained from a 100-μm stripe diode. The beam properties are very different between the horizontal and vertical direction: • In the vertical direction (“fast-axis direction”), the emission is still single-mode, with a relatively high divergence according to the small mode size in that direction.

A powerful numerical method for resonator design is to define a figure of merit (FOM), calculated as the sum of “penalties” for all nonideal properties, and to minimize that FOM with numerical techniques by varying resonator arm lengths and possibly mirror curvatures. Because the FOM often has a huge number of local extrema, a Monte Carlo method is often required to find the global optimum or at least a good solution. Note that the procedure starts with some basic resonator structure, which may have to be varied as long as no good solution is found.

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