Lasers continue to be an amazingly robust field of activity. Anyone seeking a photon source is now confronted with an enormous number of possible lasers and laser wavelengths to choose from, but no single, comprehensive source to help them make that choice.
The Handbook of Lasers provides an authoritative compilation of lasers, their properties, and original references in a readily accessible form. Organized by lasing media-solids, liquids, and gases-each section is subdivided into distinct laser types. Each type carries a brief description, followed by tables listing the lasing element...

Presents extensive tabulations of data on the physical properties of optical materials. Covers all types of optical materials used in lasers and optical systems: crystals, glasses, polymers, metals, liquids, and gases. Contains appendices of safety guidelines and listings of physical constants, units and conversion factors, abbreviations, and acronyms. Includes references to original data. For years scientists turned to the CRC Handbook of Laser Science & Technology for reliable data on optical materials. Out of print for several years, that standard-setting work now has a successor: the...

An exploration of the theory and applications of scintillation processes, outlining the development of better scintillation materials. The work defines the fundamental physical processes as a basis for controlling the primary scintillation characteristics of light output, decay time, emission spectrum, and radiation hardness. The book also explains the complicated mechanism of energy transformation in inorganic scintillators. The author presents useful equations with practical results rather than complicated derivations of equations.