"Advances in Lasers and Electro Optics" ed. by Nelson Costa and Adolfo Cartaxo

The book presents several physical effects and properties of materials used in lasers and electro-optics, applications of lasers and electro-optics in three different areas are presented.

Lasers and electro-optics is a field of research leading to constant breakthroughs. Indeed, tremendous advances have occurred in optical components and systems since the invention of laser in the late 50s, with applications in almost every imaginable field of science including control, astronomy, medicine, communications, measurements, etc.
We find lasers in industry, emitting power level of several tens of kilowatts for welding and cutting; in medical applications, emitting power levels from few milliwatt to tens of Watt for various types of surgeries; and in optical fibre telecommunication systems, emitting power levels of the order of one milliwatt.

Contents
I: Physical Effects and Properties of Materials
1 Optical, Photoluminescent, and Photoconductive Properties of Novel High-Performance Organic Semiconductors
2 Nonlinear Optical Absorption of Organic Molecules for Applications in Optical Devices
3 Optical and Spectroscopic Properties of Polymer Layers Doped with Rare Earth Ions
4 Pure x(3) Third-Harmonic Generation in Noncentrosymmetric Media
5 Semiconductor Ridge Microcavities Generating Counterpropagating Entangled Photons
6 Two-Wave Mixing in Broad-Area Semiconductor Amplifier
7 Frequency Conversion based on Three-Wave Parametric Solitons
8 Analogue of the Event Horizon in Fibers
9 Ultrafast Semiconductor Quantum Optics
10 Artificial Intelligence Tool and Electronic Systems Used to Develop Optical Applications
11 Theory of Unitary Spin Rotation and Spin State Tomography for a Single Electron and Two Electrons
12 Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Phase Conjugate Mirror and its Application to Coherent Beam Combined Laser System Producing a High Energy, High Power, High Beam Quality, and High Repetition Rate Output
13 The Intersubband Approach to Si-based Lasers
II: Applications in Communications
14 Evolution of Optical Sampling
15 NIR Single Photon Detectors with Upconversion Technology and its Applications in Quantum Communication Systems
16 All-Optical Signal Processing with Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers and Tunable Filters
17 Nonlinear Photonic Signal Processing Subsystems and Applications
18 Wavelength Conversion and 2R-Regeneration in Simple Schemes with Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers
19 Optical DQPSK Modulation Performance Evaluation
20 Fiber-to-the-Home System with Remote Repeater
21 Photonic Millimeter-wave Generation and Distribution Techniques for Millimeter/submillimeter Wave Radio Interferometer Telescope
22 Quantum Direct Communication
III: Applications in Imaging and Light Processing
23 Beating Difraction Limit using Dark States
24 The Physics of Ghost Imaging
25 High Performance Holographic Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal Systems Formed with the Siloxane-containing Derivatives and Their Applications on Electro-optics
26 Multicolor Stationary Light
27 Fundamentals and Applications of Quantum Limited Optical Imaging
28 Broadband Light Generation in Raman-active Crystals Driven by Femtosecond Laser Fields
29 Holographic 3-D Displays - Electro-holography within the Grasp of Commercialization
IV: Applications in Biology and Medicine
30 Combining Optical Coherence Tomography with Fluorescence Imaging
31 Polarization-Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography in Cardiology
32 Two-photon Fluorescence Endomicroscopy
33 Quantitative Phase Imaging using Multi-wavelength Optical Phase Unwrapping
34 Synchrotron-Based Time-Resolved X-ray Solution Scattering (Liquidography)
35 Application of Ultrafast Laser Optoperforation for Plant Pollen Walls and Endothelial Cell Membranes