Title: High Power Laser Handbook Author: Gregory Goodno, Hagop Injeyan ISBN: 0071609016 / 9780071609012 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 624 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Year: 2011 Availability: In Stock
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The State of the Art in High-Power Laser Technology
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.