TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources and Applications
T2  - NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics,
A2  - Ebrahim-Zadeh, Majid.
A2  - Ebrahim-Zadeh, Majid.
A2  - Sorokina, Irina T.
A2  - Sorokina, Irina T.
LA  - English
PP  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer
YR  - 2008
ED  - 1st ed. 2008.
UL  - http://discoverylib.upm.edu.my/discovery/Record/978-1-4020-6463-0
AB  - Coherent sources of mid-infrared (mid-IR) radiation are of great interest for a wide range of scienti?c and technological applications from spectroscopy and frequency metrology to information technology, industrial process control, pho- chemistry, photobiology and photomedicine. The mid-IR spectrum, which may be de?ned as wavelengths beyond ?2µm, covers important atmospheric windows, and numerous molecular gases, toxic agents, air, water, and soil pollutants, c- ponents of human breath, and several explosive agents have strong absorption ?ngerprints in this region. The development of practical coherent solid-state sources in the mid-IR can thus provide indispensable tools for a variety of - plications in environmental monitoring and pollution control, detection of water and soil contaminants, food quality control, agriculture and life sciences, and n- invasive disease diagnosis and therapy through breath analysis. Coherent mid-IR sources also offer important technologies for atmospheric chemistry, free-space communication, imaging, rapid detection of explosives, chemical and biological agents, nuclear material and narcotics, as well as applications in air- and sea-born safety and security, amongst many. The timely advancement of coherent mid-IR sources is, therefore, vital to future progress in many application areas across a broad range of scienti?c, technological, and industrial disciplines. On the other hand, more than 40 years after the invention of laser, much of the mid-IR spectrum still remains inaccessible to conventional lasers due to fun- mental limitations, most notably a lack of suitable crystalline laser gain materials.
OP  - 626
CN  - TA1-2040
SN  - 9781402064630
KW  - Engineering.
KW  - Physical measurements.
KW  - Measurement   .
KW  - Solid state physics.
KW  - Spectroscopy.
KW  - Microscopy.
KW  - Engineering, general.
KW  - Measurement Science and Instrumentation.
KW  - Solid State Physics.
KW  - Spectroscopy and Microscopy.
ER  -