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- Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the University of Bath, United Kingdom
- Showcases the first-ever hollow core fibre-based gas discharge laser
- Demonstrates the longest stable electrical discharge within a narrow bore tube/fibre to date
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
The research in this book represents the culmination of a drive to build the first discharge gas laser unencumbered by the effects of diffraction. This breakthrough has been achieved through careful implementation of a discharge within a hollow-core optical fibre, and by developing measurement and analysis techniques to demonstrate laser action in an experimental optical cavity.
Gas lasers were amongst the earliest laser types to be demonstrated and commercialised, but it was recognised that noble gas lasers were limited by the minimum bore diameter of the laser tube, which is set by diffraction. The advent, in 2011, of hollow optical fibres with optical and physical properties suitable for gas discharge lasers opened up the opportunity to break this diffraction limit. Using a mixture of helium and xenon gas, lasing in the mid-infrared range was achieved using a 100µm core flexible hollow optical fibre which, at 1m long, is several hundred times the diffraction-limited Rayleigh length.
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Physics, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
Adrian Love
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hollow Core Optical Fibre Based Gas Discharge Laser Systems
Authors: Adrian Love
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93970-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93969-8Published: 29 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06759-5Published: 01 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93970-4Published: 18 June 2018
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 107
Number of Illustrations: 59 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction