There has been a remarkable upsurge in the importance of high power lasers in the past decade. This book presents an overall survey of recent advances in high peak power solid lasers and reviews recent results in the interaction of high power laser pulses with various dielectric materials containing metal nanoparticles. This book also presents the basics as well as the theory of a single crystal photo-elastic modulator and a consideration of modern approaches to the synthesis of diffractive optical elements for technological IR-laser beams focusing. During ultrafast laser interaction with metal, the electrons and lattices are not in equilibrium. This book presents various two-temperature models that can be used to describe the non-equilibrium heat transfer as well as the results of techniques in high power femtosecond laser machining of metals. This book presents an overview of the current state of the art in the field of femtosecond technology with a special emphasis on the research of high-intensity laser-matter interactions. An investigation of non-linear excitation imaging technique including two-photon autofluorescence and second harmonic generated signal imaging is presented to investigate the microstructures of whole-mount corneal, retinal, and scleral tissues in their native environment. Finally, included is a review of recent semi-classical excited-state dynamics simulation results of some complex molecular systems and a report of the dynamics of confined excitons when several exciton states are excited.
Dr.Sci. Andrey L. Stepanov
Kazan Federal University, Russian Federation
Prof. of Kazan State Technological University
Andrey L. Stepanov received the Physical-Mathematical degree, the Ph.D. and Dr.Sci. degrees from the Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia, in 1985, 1991 and 2009, respectively. Since 1992, A. Stepanov is with the Laboratory of Radiation Physics of Kazan Physical-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1997-1999, he was a Research Fellow at the Sussex University, UK (group of Prof. P.D.Townsend) with the support from the Royal Society/NATO Fellowship. From 1999 to 2003, A.Stepanov was a Research Fellow of the Aachen Technical University (der RWTH) in Germany (group of Prof. U.Kreibig) with support from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. During 2003-2004 he was granted by Lise Meitner Fellowship from Austrian Scientific Society to stay in Karl-Franzens-University in Graz, Austria (group of Prof. J.R.Krenn and Prof. F.R.Aussenegg). In 2004, 2006, 2010 and 2011. A.Stepanov was a Visiting Research Fellow in Laser Zentrum Hannover in Germany with support from the DAAD and The Alexander von Humboldt Foundations (group of Prof. B.Chichkov). From 2009 he is in Kazan Federal University, Russia. He is mainly interested in Nanooptics, Nanoplasmonics, Metal nanoparticles, Nonlinear optics, Laser annealing and Ion implantation. He has more then 150 publications in periodic journals, more than 18 invited book chapters and one monograph. According of the ISI Web of Knowledge database A. Stepanov has more then 1300 citations in scientific publications and his Hirch index is 21.
