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Semiconductor lasers possess unique features in terms of performance, size and impact, and user-friendliness. From a team of international experts this book provides readers with a solid reference of the fundamentals of these devices through to the technologies and applications in bio-optics and biophotonics.

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Author:   Peter E. Andersen (Senior Scientist, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) ,  Paul Michael Petersen (Professor, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
Publisher:   Institution of Engineering and Technology
Imprint:   Institution of Engineering and Technology
ISBN:  

9781785612725

ISBN 10:   1785612727
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   23 January 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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 Chapter 13: Optical coherence tomography

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Peter E. Andersen is Senior Scientist at the Technical University of Denmark, where he leads research in biomedical optics. He has more than 20 years of research experience with light sources for biomedical optics, optical coherence tomography, and nonlinear microscopy. He has coordinated several European research programmes and has authored or co-authored more than 100 scientific publications in the above-mentioned fields. He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Biomedical Optics and the Journal of Biophotonics. Paul Michael Petersen is a Professor at the Technical University of Denmark. He has more than 25 years of research experience in new diode light sources, and has headed several collaborative, large-scale research projects. From 2002 until 2012 he was appointed adjunct professor in Optics at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University. He has authored more than 150 international scientific publications and holds 15 patents.

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