Semiconductor Lasers and Diode-based Light Sources for Biophotonics
Semiconductor Lasers and Diode-based Light Sources for Biophotonics
edited by Peter E. Andersen and Paul Michael Petersen
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2019 eISBN: 978-1-78561-273-2 | Cloth: 978-1-78561-272-5
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Semiconductor lasers are small, reliable, low cost, high-performance and user-friendly optical devices which make them highly suitable for a variety of biomedical applications.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Introduction to semiconductor light sources and their biomedical applications
Chapter 2: Fundamentals on modeling of edge-emitting semiconductor lasers and superluminescent light-emitting diodes
Chapter 3: Q-switched and mode-locked lasers for biophotonic applications
Chapter 4: Light-emitting diode technologies
Chapter 5: GaN-based blue vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
Chapter 6: Quantum cascade lasers
Chapter 7: Diode laser systems based on nonlinear frequency conversion
Chapter 8: Semiconductor disk lasers
Chapter 9: Potential biomedical use of diode-laser-induced luminescence from upconverting nanoparticles
Chapter 10: Near-infrared spectroscopy systems for biomedical applications
Chapter 11: Semiconductor lasers for bio-medical Raman spectroscopy
Chapter 12: Nonlinear imaging applications of high-power lasers: figures of merit