Main description:

Semiconductor lasers are small, reliable, low cost, high-performance and user-friendly optical devices which make them highly suitable for a variety of biomedical applications.

This edited book gathers experts in the field to cover the fundamentals and technology advances of semiconductor lasers and diode-based lasers with a focus on their applications in medical optics and biophotonics including edge-emitting semiconductor lasers and light emitting diodes, Q-switched and mode-locked lasers, quantum cascade lasers, semiconductor disk lasers, near-infrared spectroscopy systems for biomedical applications, bio-medical Raman spectroscopy, nonlinear imaging and optical coherence tomography.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction to semiconductor light sources and their biomedical applications
Chapter 2: Fundamentals on modeling of edge-emitting semiconductor lasers and superluminescent light-emitting diodes
Chapter 3: Q-switched and mode-locked lasers for biophotonic applications
Chapter 4: Light-emitting diode technologies
Chapter 5: GaN-based blue vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
Chapter 6: Quantum cascade lasers
Chapter 7: Diode laser systems based on nonlinear frequency conversion
Chapter 8: Semiconductor disk lasers
Chapter 9: Potential biomedical use of diode-laser-induced luminescence from upconverting nanoparticles
Chapter 10: Near-infrared spectroscopy systems for biomedical applications
Chapter 11: Semiconductor lasers for bio-medical Raman spectroscopy
Chapter 12: Nonlinear imaging applications of high-power lasers: figures of merit
Chapter 13: Optical coherence tomography