Tunability has added an important dimension to a variety of laser devices and led to new
systems and applications. From laser spectroscopy to Bose-Einstein condensation, the one …

A high-performance airborne water vapor differential absorption lidar has been developed
during the past years. This system uses a four-wavelength/three-absorption line …

In this introduction we list important definitions and relations that will be used throughout the
book. We will use SI units exclusively. In a departure from custom, for degenerate mixing …

The design of a 50 Hz single longitudinal mode, diode-pumped and frequency-tripled Nd:
YAG master oscillator power amplifier is described, and the first measurements of output …

We evaluate ways to analyze optical-heterodyne measurements of frequency chirp in
pulsed, single-longitudinal-mode output from lasers (or other coherent light sources) that …

The acronym LIDAR stands for light detection and ranging, an optical analog of RADAR
(radio detection and ranging). The conventional version of LIDAR requires a laser …

I numerically model broad-bandwidth optical parametric oscillation and amplification to
explore the influence of pump bandwidth on conversion efficiency, injection seeding, and …

Optical-heterodyne measurements are made on~ 842-nm signal output of an injection-
seeded optical parametric oscillator (OPO) based on periodically poled KTiOPO4 pumped at …

Complicated spectrotemporal processes are associated with the generation of signal and
idler output pulses on a nanosecond timescale in an injection-seeded optical parametric …

Narrowband pulsed 822 nm signal radiation from an injection-seeded optical parametric
oscillator (OPO) system is used to record fluorescence-detected sub-Doppler two-photon …