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