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Essentials of Laser Safety

Learn about laser classifications and the controls and protective equipment required to stay safe.

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Fundamentals of Laser Diode Control

To assess the quality, performance, and characteristics of laser diodes, manufacturers often perform exhaustive testing which requires electro-optical, spectral and spatial characterization …

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Laser Physics

A laser is a source of coherent light. It contains an optical oscillator that increases the amplitude of an optical field while maintaining its phase. This coherent amplification is …

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Light-Matter Interactions in Lasers

Light is generated from a laser as a result of the following process: electrons in a material move from an excited energy level to a lower-lying energy level and produce photons that …

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Characteristics of Laser Light

The most common laser light characteristics include: wavelength, gain bandwidth, monochromaticity, spatial and temporal profiles, collimation, output power, coherence and polarizat …

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Critical Laser Components

The critical components of a laser are a gain medium (acts as medium for population inversion), a pump source (serves as energy source for inverting population), and a resonator (provides …

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Types of Lasers

激光器通常以其增益介质来识别,以产生受激辐射的辐射物质进行分类。这些辐射物质包括稀薄气体中的原 子和分子,以相对较低的浓度溶解在液体溶液中的有机分子,半导体材料,以及晶状固体或者掺杂高浓度离子的 玻璃类的介电材料。这些激光器通常被称为气体、液体、半导体和固体激光器。正如第I.A.1 节所述,辐射物质的 浓度对介质能级的形成有重要作用。转之,这些能级会决定光学泵浦跃迁、粒子数反转结构、激光辐射波长以及 …

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Methods for Pulsed-Laser Operation

It is often desirable to operate lasers in a pulsed mode since this can significantly increase the peak output power.

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Laser Spectral Tunability

The first way to perform laser wavelength tuning uses a wavelength-selective element to choose a specific portion under a gain bandwidth to lase. The second method of wavelength tuning …

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Laser Diode and LED Physics

Laser diodes possess several unique attributes compared to other types of lasers. They are very small compared to other classes of lasers, can operate very efficiently with relatively …

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Optical Emission in Semiconductor Materials

Electron-hole recombination processes give rise to spontaneous emission in an LED and stimulated emission in a laser diode.

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Laser Diode and LED Light Characteristics

Semiconductor lasers offer the benefits of efficiency, electrical pumping, and the ability to easily integrate with modern electronics which contribute to their ubiquitous usage.

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Laser Diode Production Burn-In

High temperature burn-in screening is used in laser diode manufacturing to screen out devices that are likely to have unacceptably short lives and to ensure that the remaining population …

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Laser Diode Life Testing

Life test studies are used to collect laser diode lifetime data under carefully controlled operating conditions. These data are then used to develop statistical models that can predict …

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Laser Diode Characterization

Laser diodes are characterized by their inherent physical properties within five distinct categories, including: electrical, spatial, spectral, optical, and dynamic properties.

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Solar Light Simulation

The surface temperature of the sun is approximately 5800 K; this means that the electromagnetic spectrum of radiation from the sun is similar to that of a 5800 K blackbody with the …

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Tunable Incoherent Light Sources

The TLS is versatile, being both a broadband and high-resolution monochromatic light source which makes it suitable for applications such as the study of wavelength-dependent chemical …

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Tunable Light Sources: A Popular Choice for Measurement Applications

Many common spectroscopic measurements require the coordinated operation of a detection instrument and light source, as well as data acquisition and processing. Integration of individual …

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Gaussian Beam Optics

The Gaussian has no obvious boundaries to give it a characteristic dimension like the diameter of the circular aperture, so the definition of the size of a Gaussian is somewhat arbitrary. …

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Light Collection and Systems Throughput

This discussion is restricted to the general use of Incoherent Light Sources, such as arc lamp or quartz tungsten halogen sources. Diffraction and coherent effects are excluded. The …

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