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Hecht, Jeff. The laser guidebook. 2nd ed.
Blue Ridge Summit, Pa., TAB Books, 1992. 498 p. Lasers: invention to application. John R. Whinnery,
symposium chairman; Jesse H. Ausubel, H. Dale Langford, editors;
National Academy of Engineering. Washington, National Academy Press,
1987. 134 p. Muncheryan, Hrand M. Laser and optoelectronic engineering.
New York, Hemisphere Pub. Corp., c1991. 371 p.
Subject headings used by the Library of Congress, under which books on lasers can be located in most card, book, and online catalogs include the following:
Das, Pankaj K. Lasers and optical engineering.
New York, Springer-Verlag, c1991. 470 p. Encyclopedia of lasers and optical technology.
Robert A. Meyers, editor. San Diego, Academic Press, c1991. 764
p. Gibilisco, Stan. Understanding lasers. Blue
Ridge Summit, Pa., TAB Books, c1989. 169 p. Hallmark, Clayton L., and Delton T. Horn. Lasers--the
light fantastic. 2nd ed. Blue Ridge Summit, Pa., TAB Books,
c1987. 278 p. Hitz, C. Breck. Understanding laser technology:
an intuitive introduction to basic and advanced laser concepts.
Tulsa, Okla., PennWell Books, c1985. 226 p. Introduction to lasers. 2nd ed. Waco, Tex.,
Center for Occupational Research and Development, 1986. 283 p. (Laser/electro-optics
technology series, v. 1) Lasers and light; readings from Scientific American.
With introductions by Arthur L. Schawlow. San Francisco, W. H. Freeman,
1969. 376 p. Laurence, Clifford L. The laser book: a new technology
of light. New York, Prentice Hall, c1986. 208 p. Lugomer, Stjepan. Laser technology: laser driven
processes. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice Hall, c1990. 449
p. Siegman, A. E. Lasers. Mill Valley, Calif.,
University Science Books, c1986. 1283 p. Wilson, J., and J. F. B. Hawkes. Lasers, principles
and applications. New York, Prentice Hall, 1987. 308 p. T
Analogies in optics and micro electronics: selected
contributions on recent developments. Edited by Willem van Haeringen
and Daan Lenstra. Dordrecht, Netherlands, Boston, Kluwer Academic,
c1990. 261 p. Bone, Jan. Opportunities in laser technology careers.
Lincolnwood, Ill., VGM Career Horizons, c1989. 148 p. Hecht, Jeff. Laser pioneers. Boston, Academic
Press, c1992. 298 p. Horn, Delton T. Laser experimenter's handbook.
2nd. ed. Blue Ridge Summit, Pa., TAB Books, c1988. 167 p. Iannini, Robert E. Build your own working fiberoptic,
infrared, and laser space-age projects. Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.,
TAB Books, c1987. 262 p. Industrial lasers. Dearborn, Mich., Society
of Manufacturing Engineers, Publications Development Dept., c1986.
530 p. Light and its uses: making and using lasers, holograms,
interferometers, and instruments of dispersion: readings from Scientific
American. With introductions by Jearl Walker. San Francisco,
W. H. Freeman, 1980. 147 p. Luxon, James T., and David E. Parker. Industrial
lasers and their applications. 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,
Prentice Hall, c1992. 301 p. Mauldin, John H. Light, lasers, and optics.
Blue Ridge Summit, Pa., TAB Books, c1988. 243 p. McComb, Gordon. The laser cookbook: 88 practical
projects. Blue Ridge Summit, Pa., TAB Books, 1988. 404 p. Milonni, Peter W., and Joseph H. Eberly. Lasers.
New York, Wiley, c1988. 731 p. Safford, Edward L., and John A. McCann. Fiberoptics
and laser handbook. 2nd ed. Blue Ridge Summit, Pa., TAB Books,
c1988. 236 p. Scruby, C. B., and L. E. Drain. Laser ultrasonics:
techniques and applications. Bristol, England, Philadelphia,
A. Hilger, c1990. 447 p. Selected papers on laser design. Hugo Weichel,
editor. Bellingham, Wash., SPIE Optical Engineering Press, c1991.
700 p. (SPIE milestone series, v. MS 29) Sliney, David H., and Myron Wolbarsht. Safety with
lasers and other optical sources: a comprehensive handbook.
New York, Plenum Press, c1980. 1035 p. Svelto, Orazio. Principles of lasers. 3rd ed.
Translated from Italian and edited by David C. Hanna. New York,
Plenum, c1989. 494 p. Verdeyen, Joseph Thomas. Laser electronics.
2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice Hall, c1989. 622 p. Winburn, D. C. Practical laser safety. 2nd
ed., rev. and expanded. New York, M. Dekker, 1990. 241 p. (Occupational
safety and health, 11) Yariv, Amnon. Quantum electronics. 3rd ed.
New York, Wiley, c1989. 676 p.
American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists.
A guide for control of laser hazards. 4th ed. Cincinnati,
Ohio, American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists,
1990. 73 p. Anderberg, Bengt, and Myron L. Wolbarsht. Laser
weapons: the dawn of a new military age. New York, Plenum Press,
c1992. 244 p. Brau, Charles A. Free-electron lasers. Boston,
Academic Press, c1990. 420 p. (Advances in electronics and electron
physics. Supplement, 22) Chemical lasers. N. G. Basov and others. Berlin,
New York, Springer-Verlag, c1990. 370 p. Dye lasers. 3rd enl. and rev. ed. Edited by
F. P. Schafer, with contributions by K. H. Drexhage and others.
Berlin, New York, Springer-Verlag, c1990. 244 p. (Topics in applied
physics, v. 1) Elton, Raymond C. X-ray lasers. Boston, Academic
Press, c1990. 287 p. High power lasers. Edited by A. Niku-Lari and
B. L. Mordike. Oxford, New York, Pergamon Press, 1989. 335 p. Infrared absorbing dyes. Edited by Masaru Matsuoka.
New York, Plenum Press, c1990. 220 p. Jain, Kanti. Excimer laser lithography. Bellingham,
Wash., SPIE Optical Engineering Press, c1990. 212 p. Laser applications in medicine and biology.
v. 1- New York, Plenum Press, 1971- irregular. Laser microfabrication: thin film processes and
lithography. Edited by Daniel J. Ehrlich, Jeffrey Y. Tsao. Boston,
Academic Press, c1989. 587 p. Ohtsu, Motoichi. Highly coherent semiconductor
lasers. Boston, Artech House, c1992. 340 p. Optical fibre lasers and amplifiers. Edited
by P. W. France. Glasgow, Blackie; Boca Raton, Fla., CRC Press,
1991. 259 p. Roberson, C. W., and P. Sprangle. A review of free
electron lasers. Washington, Naval Research Laboratory, 1990.
143 p. Selected papers on CO2 lasers. James
D. Evans, editor. Bellingham, Wash., SPIE Optical Engineering Press,
c1990. 547 p. (SPIE milestone series, v. MS 22) Selected papers on solid state lasers. Richard
C. Powell, editor. Bellingham, Wash., SPIE Optical Engineering Press,
c1991. 476 p. (SPIE milestone series, v. MS 31) Semiconductor diode lasers. v. 1- Edited by
William Streifer, Michael Ettenberg. New York, IEEE Press, c1991-
Sigmond, J., and Marten Terpstra, eds. High-power
lasers: improvements and applications: a literature study. London,
New York, Elsevier Applied Science, c1988. 226 p. Steen, W. M. Laser material processing. London,
New York, Springer-Verlag, c1991. 266 p.
Arecchi, F. T., and E. O. Schulz-Dubois, eds. Laser
handbook. v. 1-6. Amsterdam, North-Holland Pub. Co., New York,
American Elsevier Pub. Co., 1972-1990. Gas lasers. Editor, Marvin J. Weber. Boca Raton,
Fla., CRC Press, c1982. 575 p. (CRC handbook of laser science and
technology, v. 2) Handbook of molecular lasers. Edited by Peter
K. Cheo. New York, M. Dekker, c1987. 652 p. (Optical engineering,
14) Handbook of solid-state lasers. Edited by Peter
K. Cheo. New York, M. Dekker, 1988, c1989. 619 p. (Optical engineering,
v. 18) The Industrial laser handbook. New York, Springer-Verlag,
1992-1993 ed.- biennial. Laser and electron beam material processing: handbook.
N. Rykalin and others. Moscow, Mir Publishers, c1988. 591 p. Laser focus with fiberoptic technology buyers'
guide. Westford, Mass., Laser Focus, 1965- annual. Lasers. Editor, Marvin J. Weber. Boca Raton,
Fla., CRC Press, c1991. 595 p. (CRC handbook of laser science and
technology. Supplement, 1) Lasers and masers. Editor, Marvin J. Weber.
Boca Raton, Fla., CRC Press, c1982. 552 p. (CRC Handbook of laser
science and technology, v. 1) Optical materials. Editor, Marvin J. Weber.
Boca Raton, Fla., CRC Press, c1986-c1987. 3 v. (CRC handbook of
laser science and technology, v. 3-5)
International Conference on Lasers. Proceedings
of the International Conference on Lasers. McLean, Va., STS
Press, Society for Optical & Quantum Electronics, 1978- annual.
Modeling and simulation of laser systems II: proceedings,
23-24 January 1991, Los Angeles, California. Alvin D. Schnurr,
chair/editor; Sponsored by SPIE-the International Society for Optical
Engineering. Bellingham, Wash., The Society, 1991. 351 p. (SPIE
proceedings series, v. 1415) Short-pulse high-intensity lasers and applications:
22-23 January 1991, Los Angeles, California. Hector A. Baldis,
chair/editor; Sponsored and published by SPIE--the International
Society for Optical Engineering. Bellingham, Wash., SPIE, c1991.
145 p. (SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering:
Proceedings, v. 1413)
Technical reports and other types of literature are indexed in the following guides:
The following selected technical reports are available in the microform collection of the Science Reading Room. They may also be purchased from the National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Virginia 22161. Boeck, H. Laser surveillance system (LASSY).
Vienna, International Atomic Energy Agency, 1991. 13 p. (IAEAR4273F)
Govindaraju, Madhav Rao, and others. Laser coating
of composites for enhanced wear and corrosion resistance. Final
rept. 1 Jul-31 Dec 91. Ames, Iowa, Laser Science Co., 1992.
53p. (ARO290441MSSBI) (DAAL0391C0040) Kautz, D. D., and others. Preliminary cutting and
drilling studies using new generation lasers. Livermore, Calif.,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 1992. 5 p. (UCRLJC109918)
(CONF9111894) Proceedings of the Tokyo international symposium
'90 on free electron lasers. Tokyo, Japan Atomic Energy Research
Inst., 1991. 148 p. (JAERIM91141) (CONF-900168) Torczynski, J. R., and D. R. Neal. Transient gas
motion in nuclear-reactor-pumped lasers: computational and experimental
results. Albuquerque, N.M., Sandia National Laboratories, 1991.
26p. (SAND911441C) (CONF9206051)
Bibliography of Soviet laser developments, March-April
1988. Washington, Defense Intelligence Agency, Directorate for
Scientific and Technical Intelligence, 1990. 110 p. (DIADST2700Z00290)
Dorros, Gerald, and Darrell Seeley. Understanding
lasers: a basic manual for medical practitioners including an extensive
bibliography of medical applications. Mt. Kisco, N.Y., Futura
Pub. Co., 1991. 176 p. Gomersall, Alan. Lasers in materials processing:
a bibliography of a developing technology. Kempston, Bedford,
UK, IFS (Publications); Berlin, New York, Springer-Verlag, 1986.
167 p.
Abstracting and indexing services that index relevant journal articles and other literature under the subject headings LASERS are listed below. Consult reference librarian for locations of these materials in Science Reading Room; some are available in CD-ROM format.
Journals that often contain articles relevant to lasers include:
Badawi, K. F., and others. Measurements of the main
characteristics of a high power laser beam. Lasers in engineering,
v. 1, no. 2, 1991: 75-88. Brauch, U., and others. Influence of operating temperature
on the power, divergence, and stress-induced birefringence in solar-pumped
solid state lasers. Optical engineering, v. 31, May 1992:
1072-1078. Dyakova, Yu., and S. Shavkunov. Russian laser market
opens up. Laser report, v. 28, Apr. 15, 1992: 1, 6-7. Gottschalk, Mark A. Lasers light a path for military
detection applications. Design news, v. 48, Apr. 20, 1992:
34, 36. Krainov, V. V., and V. E. Yashin. Stabilization of
laser-pulse energy by stimulated Brillouin scattering. Optics
and spectroscopy, v. 70, June 1991: 771-773. Kubo, Tracy S., and Thomas J. Kane. Diode-pumped lasers
at five eye-safe wavelengths. IEEE journal of quantum electronics,
v. 28, Apr. 1992: 1033-1040. Leib, K. G., and B. J. Pernick. Optical testing of
large windows for laser applications. Optics & laser technology,
v. 24, June 1992: 123-127. Malcolm, G. P. A., and A. I. Ferguson. Mode-locking
of diode laser-pumped solid-state lasers. Optical and quantum
electronics, v. 24, no. 7, 1992: 705-717. Mignon, Marc, and Emmanuel Desurvire. An analytical
model for the determination of optimal output reflectivity and fiber
length in erbium-doped fiber lasers. IEEE photonics technology
letters, v. 4, Aug. 1992: 850-852. Mishchenko, S. A., and others. Lasing characteristics
of excimer active media near the pumping threshold by a hard ionization
source. Laser physics, v. 2, Feb. 1992: 19-26. O'Connor, Leo. Laser probes work in varied environments.
Mechanical engineering, v. 114, Apr. 1992: 20. Park, Namkyoo, and others. Linewidth and frequency
jitter measurement of an erbium-doped fiber ring laser by using
a loss-compensated, delayed self-heterodyne interferometer. Optics
letters, v. 17, Sept. 15, 1992: 1274-1276. Staromlynska, J. A double-element broad-band liquid
crystal tunable filter; factors affecting contrast ratio. IEEE
journal of quantum electronics, v. 28, Feb. 1992: 501-506. Tan, Weihan, and C. S. Liu. Raman and Brillouin scattering
in the filaments in laser-irradiated plasma. Laser and particle
beams, v. 10, no. 1, 1992: 15-22. Vaccari, John A. Laser shocking extends fatigue life.
American machinist, v. 136, July 1992: 62-64. Yanagawa, Toru, and others. Bactericidal effect of
argon laser on various organisms. Lasers in the life sciences,
v. 4, no. 4, 1992: 201-206. Zhitnev, Yu. N., and others. The pulsed homogeneous
laser pyrolysis: determination of Arrhenius parameters of CHClF2
destruction basing on the model of physical and chemical processes.
Laser chemistry, v. 11, no. 2, 1991: 71-81.
Selected materials available in the Science Reading Room pamphlet boxes include the following: Allario, Frank, and others. Laser remote sensing supports aviation safety. Laser focus world, v. 28, Apr. 1992: 59-68. Arons, Irving J. Will corneal sculpting with excimer lasers eliminate eyeglasses? Laser focus world, v. 28, Mar. 1992: 53-62. Hecht, Jeff. Excimer lasers produce powerful ultraviolet pulses. Laser focus world, v. 28, June 1992: 63-72. Higgins, Thomas V. Nondestructive testing comes to life with holography. Laser focus world, v. 28, Aug. 1992: 67-76. Higgins, Thomas V. Free-electron lasers edge toward practicality. Laser focus world, v. 28, May 1992: 113-124. Kales, David. Review and forecast of laser markets: 1992. Laser focus world, v. 28, Jan. 1992: 57-70. Messenger, Heather W., and Yvonne A. Carts. Outlook for 1992: user needs spur technical advances. Laser focus world, v. 28, Jan. 1992: 73-80. Takarabe, Mark. Precision sensing with lasers. Machine design, v. 64, July 23, 1992: 62-66.
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