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This is a list of laser types, their operational
This is a list of laser types, their operational wavelength
In physics and mathematics, wavelength or spatial period of a wave or periodic function is the distance over which the wave's shape repeats.
In other words, it is the distance between consecutive corresponding points of the same ''phase (waves ...
s, and their applications
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Mathematics and computing
* Application software, computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks
** Application layer, an abstraction layer that specifies protocols and interface methods used in a ...
. Thousands of kinds of laser
A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. The word ''laser'' originated as an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radi ...
are known, but most of them are used only for specialized research.
Overview
Gas lasers
Chemical lasers
Used asdirected-energy weapon
A directed-energy weapon (DEW) is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy without a solid projectile, including lasers, microwaves, particle beams, and sound beams. Potential applications of this technology include ...
s.
Dye lasers
Metal-vapor lasers
Solid-state lasers
Semiconductor lasers
Other types of lasers
See also
*Laser construction
A laser is constructed from three principal parts:
*An energy source (usually referred to as the ''Laser pumping, pump'' or ''pump source''),
*A ''gain medium'' or ''Active laser medium, laser medium'', and
*Two or more mirrors that form an ''o ...
*List of laser articles
This is a list of laser topics.
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* 3D printing, additive manufacturing
* Abnormal reflection
* Above-threshold ionization
* Absorption spectroscopy
* Accelerator physics
* Acoustic microscopy
* Acousto-optic deflector
* Acousto-optic mo ...
*Maser
A maser is a device that produces coherent electromagnetic waves ( microwaves), through amplification by stimulated emission. The term is an acronym for microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Nikolay Basov, Alexander Pr ...
producing or amplifying a coherent microwave beam
*X-ray laser
An X-ray laser can be created by several methods either in hot, dense plasmas or as a free-electron laser in an accelerator. This article describes the x-ray lasers in plasmas, only.
The plasma x-ray lasers rely on stimulated emission to gener ...
producing a coherent x-ray or EUV beam
*Atom laser
An atom laser is a coherent state of propagating atoms. They are created out of a Bose–Einstein condensate of atoms that are output coupled using various techniques. Much like an optical laser, an atom laser is a coherent beam that behaves lik ...
producing a coherent beam of atoms
*Gravity laser
A gravity laser, also sometimes referred to as a gaser, graser, or glaser, is a hypothetical device for stimulated emission of coherent gravitational radiation or gravitons, much in the same way that a standard laser produces coherent electromagnet ...
, a hypothetical concept of producing coherent gravitation waves
Notes
Further references
*Silfvast, William T. ''Laser fundamentals'', Cambridge University Press, 2004. *Weber, Marvin J. ''Handbook of laser wavelengths'', CRC Press, 1999. {{DEFAULTSORT:Laser Types