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...

Within the text the authors summarize the discovery and properties of new optical materials. Included are thr latest advances in optical crystals, glasses and plastics, laser host materials, phase conjunction materials, linear electrooptic materials, elastooptic materials, photorefractive materials, liquid crystals and thin films and coatings. The book also includes expanded coverage of optical waveguard materials, ansd new sections on glass fibre lasers, diamond optics and graded index materials.