Table of Contents

Introduction
Solid State Lasers
Crystalline Paramagnetic Ion Lasers
Glass Lasers
Solid State Dye Lasers
Color Center Lasers
Semiconductor Lasers
Polymer Lasers
Liquid Lasers
Organic Dye Lasers
Rare Earth Liquid Lasers
Gas Lasers
Neutral Atom, Ionized, and Molecular Gas Lasers
Optically Pumped Far Infrared and Millimeter Wave Lasers
References
Other Lasers
Extreme Ultraviolet and Soft X-Ray Lasers
Free Electron Lasers
Nuclear Pumped Lasers
Natural Lasers
Inversionless Lasers
Commercial Lasers
Solid State Lasers
Semiconductor Lasers
Dye Lasers
Gas Layers
Appendices
Abbreviations, Acronyms, Initialisms, and Common Names for Types and Structures of Lasers and Amplifiers
Abbreviations, Acronyms, Initialisms, and Mineralogical or Common Names for Solid-State Laser Materials
Fundamental Constants

About the Author

Weber, Marvin J.

Reviews

"The Handbooks are particularly valued for their breadth and authority by those working in all areas of laser science and engineering. In large part, their success has undoubtedly be due to the most professional approach and guidance of the Editor-in-Chief, Marvin Weber, who has had a most distinguished and active research career in the laser field…Overall, the Handbook is a major contribution to the reference literature on lasers, and as such, will be most valuable to all those active in the field, continuing the excellence of the CRC Press Handbooks of Laser Science and Technology series. To this reviewer's knowledge, there is no equivalent comprehensive compilation of laser wavelengths available elsewhere as a single source."
-C.L.M. Ireland in Optics & Laser Technology, 30, 1998