Semiconductor Lasers and Diode-based Light Sources for Biophotonics
Published on 23. January 2019
Book
Hardback
480 pages
978-1-78561-272-5 (ISBN)
Description
Semiconductor lasers are small, reliable, low cost, high-performance and user-friendly optical devices which make them highly suitable for a variety of biomedical applications.
This edited book gathers experts in the field to cover the fundamentals and technology advances of semiconductor lasers and diode-based lasers with a focus on their applications in medical optics and biophotonics including edge-emitting semiconductor lasers and light emitting diodes, Q-switched and mode-locked lasers, quantum cascade lasers, semiconductor disk lasers, near-infrared spectroscopy systems for biomedical applications, bio-medical Raman spectroscopy, nonlinear imaging and optical coherence tomography.
This edited book gathers experts in the field to cover the fundamentals and technology advances of semiconductor lasers and diode-based lasers with a focus on their applications in medical optics and biophotonics including edge-emitting semiconductor lasers and light emitting diodes, Q-switched and mode-locked lasers, quantum cascade lasers, semiconductor disk lasers, near-infrared spectroscopy systems for biomedical applications, bio-medical Raman spectroscopy, nonlinear imaging and optical coherence tomography.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Stevenage
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
816 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78561-272-5 (9781785612725)
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Persons
Peter E. Andersen is Senior Scientist at the Technical University of Denmark, where he leads research in biomedical optics. He has more than 20 years of research experience with light sources for biomedical optics, optical coherence tomography, and nonlinear microscopy. He has coordinated several European research programmes and has authored or co-authored more than 100 scientific publications in the above-mentioned fields. He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Biomedical Optics and the Journal of Biophotonics.
Paul Michael Petersen is a Professor at the Technical University of Denmark. He has more than 25 years of research experience in new diode light sources, and has headed several collaborative, large-scale research projects. From 2002 until 2012 he was appointed adjunct professor in Optics at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University. He has authored more than 150 international scientific publications and holds 15 patents.
Paul Michael Petersen is a Professor at the Technical University of Denmark. He has more than 25 years of research experience in new diode light sources, and has headed several collaborative, large-scale research projects. From 2002 until 2012 he was appointed adjunct professor in Optics at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University. He has authored more than 150 international scientific publications and holds 15 patents.
Content
Chapter 1: Introduction to semiconductor light sources and their biomedical applications
Chapter 2: Fundamentals on modeling of edge-emitting semiconductor lasers and superluminescent light-emitting diodes
Chapter 3: Q-switched and mode-locked lasers for biophotonic applications
Chapter 4: Light-emitting diode technologies
Chapter 5: GaN-based blue vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
Chapter 6: Quantum cascade lasers
Chapter 7: Diode laser systems based on nonlinear frequency conversion
Chapter 8: Semiconductor disk lasers
Chapter 9: Potential biomedical use of diode-laser-induced luminescence from upconverting nanoparticles
Chapter 10: Near-infrared spectroscopy systems for biomedical applications
Chapter 11: Semiconductor lasers for bio-medical Raman spectroscopy
Chapter 12: Nonlinear imaging applications of high-power lasers: figures of merit
Chapter 13: Optical coherence tomography
Chapter 2: Fundamentals on modeling of edge-emitting semiconductor lasers and superluminescent light-emitting diodes
Chapter 3: Q-switched and mode-locked lasers for biophotonic applications
Chapter 4: Light-emitting diode technologies
Chapter 5: GaN-based blue vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
Chapter 6: Quantum cascade lasers
Chapter 7: Diode laser systems based on nonlinear frequency conversion
Chapter 8: Semiconductor disk lasers
Chapter 9: Potential biomedical use of diode-laser-induced luminescence from upconverting nanoparticles
Chapter 10: Near-infrared spectroscopy systems for biomedical applications
Chapter 11: Semiconductor lasers for bio-medical Raman spectroscopy
Chapter 12: Nonlinear imaging applications of high-power lasers: figures of merit
Chapter 13: Optical coherence tomography