Overview
- Provides a comprehensive, up-to-date summary of the very actively investigated field of remote atmospheric lasing
- Contains contributions by authors who have each made important recent contributions to the field
- Offers content of interest to a broad and very interdisciplinary scientific community
- Represents the first comprehensive book on this new and rapidly developing field
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences (SSOS, volume 208)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Nonlinear optics of the atmosphere
- Intense laser-matter interactions
- Laser-based remote sensing
- Remote atmospheric sensing
- Laser-generated plasma
- Laser spectroscopy
- Air lasing
- remote sensing in atmosphere
- two-photon pumping
- multi-photon pumping
- laser filamentation
- microwave heating
- Raman spectroscopy
- combustion diagnostics
- remote sensing/photogrammetry
About this book
This book presents the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary review of the rapidly developing field of air lasing. In most applications of lasers, such as cutting and engraving, the laser source is brought to the point of service where the laser beam is needed to perform its function. However, in some important applications such as remote atmospheric sensing, placing the laser at a convenient location is not an option. Current sensing schemes rely on the detection of weak backscattering of ground-based, forward-propagating optical probes, and possess limited sensitivity. The concept of air lasing (or atmospheric lasing) relies on the idea that the constituents of the air itself can be used as an active laser medium, creating a backward-propagating, impulsive, laser-like radiation emanating from a remote location in the atmosphere. This book provides important insights into the current state of development of air lasing and its applications.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Pavel Polykin is an Associate Research Professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He received his PhD degree from Texas A&M University in 2000. His current research interests lie in the fields of femtosecond laser science and ultra-intense nonlinear optics. He has co-authored over 60 peer-reviewed research articles, holds 11 US patents, and has delivered numerous invited talks at international conferences on laser physics and optics.
Ya Cheng is a professor at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, SIOM. He received his B.S. degree from Fudan University in 1993, and Ph.D degree from SIOM in 1998. Since 1995, he has been working in the ultrafast photonics related fields. His current research interests include femtosecond laser micromachining, ultrafast nonlinear optics, and strong field laser physics. He has published morethan 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and given more than 100 invited talks at international conferences.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Air Lasing
Editors: Pavel Polynkin, Ya Cheng
Series Title: Springer Series in Optical Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65220-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65219-1Published: 13 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87977-2Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65220-7Published: 16 December 2017
Series ISSN: 0342-4111
Series E-ISSN: 1556-1534
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 143
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 95 illustrations in colour
Topics: Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Spectroscopy/Spectrometry, Atmospheric Sciences, Classical Electrodynamics, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction