Overview
- Provides a coherent presentation of high-power laser systems and high-power radiation interaction with a matter
- Presents materials for high-power lasers
- Gives guidance to the development of high-power lasers
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences (SSOS, volume 192)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Power Optics Elements (POE) for High Power Lasers
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Front Matter
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High Repetition Rate Lasers and New Applications
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About this book
This book covers the basics, realization and materials for high power laser systems and high power radiation interaction with matter. The physical and technical fundamentals of high intensity laser optics and adaptive optics and the related physical processes in high intensity laser systems are explained. A main question discussed is: What is power optics? In what way is it different from ordinary optics widely used in cameras, motion-picture projectors, i.e., for everyday use? An undesirable consequence of the thermal deformation of optical elements and surfaces was discovered during studies of the interaction with powerful incident laser radiation. The requirements to the fabrication, performance and quality of optical elements employed within systems for most practical applications are also covered. The high-power laser performance is generally governed by the following: (i) the absorption of incident optical radiation (governed primarily by various absorption mechanisms), (ii) followed by a temperature increase and response governed primarily by thermal properties and (iii) the thermo-optical and thermo-mechanical response of distortion, stress, fracture, etc. All this needs to be understood to design efficient, compact, reliable and useful high power systems for many applications under a variety of operating conditions, pulsed, continuous wave and burst mode of varying duty cycles. The book gives an overview of an important spectrum of related topics like laser resonator configurations, intermetallic optical coatings, heat carriers for high power optics, cellular materials, high-repetition-rate lasers and mono-module disk lasers for high power optics.
Reviews
“This book covers advanced theory of optical absorption, the response of optical elements used in high-power laser systems to radiation, and the interaction of high-power radiation with matter. … It is intended for the specialist in high-power laser optics and would be of interest mainly to those who design high-power laser optics and to researchers interested in new applications of high-power high-rep-rate laser systems.” (IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine, September-October, 2015)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Apollonov V.V. is a high profile scientist and well known around all over the world, for more than 45 years of his international scientific activity, he has participated and organized more than 56 international conferences, symposiums and workshops, prepared more than 32 candidates and doctors of physics and mathematics. For the last 5 years his scientific group has fulfilled more than 60 R and D contracts with customers from Japan, UK, Germany, France, China, Korea, Singapore and USA. He is the General Director of “Energomashtechnika” Ltd.
Apollonov V.V. is the member of European and American Physical Society, SPIE, AIAA, American Society for QE and the member of specialized scientific council of Russia. He is a full member of Russian Academy of Natural Science and Academy of Engineering Sciences, laureate of State Prize of USSR (1982) and of Russia (2001).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: High-Power Optics
Book Subtitle: Lasers and Applications
Authors: Victor V. Apollonov
Series Title: Springer Series in Optical Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10753-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-10752-3Published: 05 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36296-0Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-10753-0Published: 21 November 2014
Series ISSN: 0342-4111
Series E-ISSN: 1556-1534
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 275
Number of Illustrations: 73 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Classical Electrodynamics, Optical and Electronic Materials, Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering, Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes