Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources and Applications

1. Crystalline Laser and Nonlinear Optical Materials for the Mid-IR

1. New Monocrystals with Low Phonon Energy for Mid-IR Lasers
Ludmila Isaenko, Alexander Yelisseyev, Alexandra Tkachuk, Svetlana Ivanova

2. Orthorhombic Crystals of Lithium Thioindate and Selenoindate for Nonlinear Optics in the Mid-IR
J. -J. Zondy, V. Petrov, Alexander Yelisseyev, S. Lobanov, Ludmila Isaenko

3. Quaternary Nonlinear Optical Crystals for the Mid-Infrared Spectral Range from 5 to 12 ?m
V. Petrov, V. Badikov, V. Panyutin

4. Microstructured Semiconductors for Mid-Infrared Nonlinear Optics
P. S. Kuo, M. M. Fejer

2. Sources in the Mid-IR

5. Progress in Quantum Cascade Lasers
Jerome Faist, Thierry Aellen, Tobias Gresch, Mattias Beck, Marcella Giovannini

6. High-Brightness 2.X ?m Semiconductor Lasers
M. Rattunde, M. T. Kelemen, N. Schulz, C. Pfahler, C. Manz, J. Schmitz, G. Kaufel, J. Wagner

7. Broadband Mid-Infrared Solid-State Lasers
Irina T. Sorokina

8. New Regimes of Excitation and Mid-IR Lasing of Transition Metal Doped II–VI Crystals
Sergey Mirov, Vladimir Fedorov

9. Advances in Mid-Infrared Fiber Lasers
Markus Pollnau, Stuart D. Jackson

10. Mid-Infrared Optical Parametric Oscillators and Applications
Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh

11. Mid-Infrared Integrated Optical Parametric Generators and Oscillators with Periodically Poled Ti:LiNbO3 Waveguides
S. Orlov, W. Grundkötter, D. Hofmann, V. Quiring, R. Ricken, H. Suche, W. Sohler

12. Optical Parametric Generators and Amplifiers
Valdas Pasiskevicius, Fredrik Laurell

13. Tunable THz Sources Based on Quasi-Phase-Matched Gallium Arsenide
Konstantin Vodopyanov

14. Semiconductor Waveguides for Nonlinear Frequency Conversion
L. Lanco, M. Ravaro, J. P. Likforman, P. Filloux, X. Marcadet, S. Ducci, G. Leo, V. Berger

3. Applications

15. Semiconductor Laser Based Trace Gas Sensor Technology: Recent Advances and Applications
F. K. Tittel, G. Wysocki, A. Kosterev, Y. Bakhirkin

16. Trace Gas Analysis with Isotopic Selectivity Using DFG-Sources
H. Waechter, M. Sigrist

17. Photoacoustic Spectroscopy Using Continuous Wave Optical Parametric Oscillators
Anthony K. Y. Ngai, Stefan T. Persijn, Maarten M. J. W. Herpen, Simona M. Cristescu, Frans J. M. Harren

18. Online Monitoring of Exhaled Breath Using Mid-Infrared Laser Spectroscopy
Manfred Mürtz, Peter Hering

19. Ultrabroadband Solid-State Lasers in Trace Gas Sensing
Evgeni Sorokin

20. Medical Applications of Mid-IR Solid-State Lasers
Rudolf Steiner

21. Opportunities for Mid-IR Sources in Intense-Field and Attosecond Physics
Misha Ivanov, Vlad Yakovlev, Ferenc Krausz

22. Ultrawideband Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nanostructures
Thomas Müller, Karl Unterrainer

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