Advanced Lasers, 2015 Laser Physics and Technology for Applied and Fundamental Science Springer Series in Optical Sciences Series, Vol. 193

Presenting a blend of applied and fundamental research in highly interdisciplinary subjects of rapidly developing areas, this book contains contributions on the frontiers and hot topics of laser physics, laser technology and laser engineering, and covers a wide range of laser topics, from all-optical signal processing and chaotic optical communication to production of superwicking surfaces, correction of extremely high-power beams, and generation of ultrabroadband spectra. It presents both review-type contributions and well researched and documented case studies, and is intended for graduate students, young scientist, and emeritus scientist working/studying in laser physics, optoelectronics, optics, photonics, and adjacent areas. The book contains both experimental and theoretical studies, as well as combinations of these two, which is known to be a most useful and interesting form of reporting scientific results, allowing students to really learn from each contribution. The book contains over 130 illustrations.

1 Recent Progress in Polarization-Bistable VCSELs and Their Applications to All-Optical Signal Processing.- 2 Tunable Lasers based on Multimode Interference Effects.- 3 Whispering gallery mode microdisk resonator with dynamic material properties.- 4 Superradiant lasing and collective dynamics of active centers with polarization lifetime exceeding photon lifetime.- 5 The control of energy, temporal and spatial characteristics a microchip laser with active output mirror.- 6 Recent Advances in Secure Transmission with Chaotic Carriers.- 7 Superwicking surfaces produced by femtosecond laser.- 8 Optical processors as conceptual tools for designing nonconventional devices.- 9 Description of the Dynamics of Charged Particles in Electric Fields: An Approach using Fractional Calculus.- 10 Sub- and nanosecond pulsed lasers applied to the generation of broad spectrum in standard and microstructured optical fibers.- 11 Extremely high power CO2 laser beam correction.- 12 Measurements of intense and wide-aperture laser radiation parameters with thinwire bolometers.- 13 Spectral and lasing characteristics of some red and NIR laser dyes in silica matrices.- 14 Interpretation of the time delay in the ionization of Coulomb systems by attosecond laser pulses.

Oleksiy V. Shulika has received both Ph.D. degree in optics and laser physics from V. N. Karazin National University, Ukraine, in 2008 and a title of Associate Professor in 2012. His research interests are ultrafast and nonlinear photonics, THz photonics, semiconductor optics, semiconductor nanostructures, and optoelectronic devices. He is coeditor of 2 books “Terahertz and Mid Infrared Radiation: Basic Research and Practical Applications”, Springer©2011, and “Terahertz and Mid Infrared Radiation: Detection of Explosives and CBRN (Using Terahertz)”, Springer©2014.
Dr. Shulika is Member of IEEE Photonics Society, Optical Society of America, and SPIE. He is Member of the Organizing Committee of the Conference Series “International Conference on Advanced Optoelectronics and Lasers, CAOL”, NATO Advanced Research Workshop “Terahertz and Mid Infrared Radiation: Basic Research and Applications, TERA-MIR”, “International Conference on Laser and Fiber-Optical Networks Modeling, LFNM”.

Igor A. Sukhoivanov had received the Ph.D. degree in 1985, the Dr. Sc. degree in Optics and Laser Physics from V. N. Karazin National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine in 2002, and Full Professor degree in 2004. Currently he is with the Guanajuato University, Dept. Electronics, DICIS, Salamanca, Mexico, Professor Titular B., Member SNI, level II.
He is the author/coauthor of 9 book chapters and more than 130 journal papers. He is coauthor of 1 book “Photonic Crystals: Physics and Practical Modeling”Springer©2009
His research interests include photonic devices, semiconductor lasers and theory of quantum confinement structures, photonic crystal elements, ultra short pulse propagation in fibers.
Prof. Sukhoivanov is a Senior Member of the IEEE Photonics Society (IPS), and of the Opt. Society of America (OSA), member of the American Phys. Soc. (APS), and the Soc. of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). He is Organizerand Chairman of Int. Conference on Adv