Handbook of Semiconductor Lasers and Diode-Based Light Sources in Biophotonics

Prof. Dr. Peter E. Andersen is Senior Scientist and Research Professor at the Technical University of Denmark, where he leads the research within biomedical optics. Dr. Andersen has more than 15 years of research experience with light sources for biomedical optics and optical coherence tomography systems. Dr. Andersen has coordinated several European research programmes (FP6 and FP7). He has authored or co-authored more than 100 scientific publications in the above-mentioned fields, respectively. Dr. Andersen is appointed Deputy Editor of Optics Letters and editorial board member of Journal of Biophotonics. Prof. Paul Michael Petersen is Head of research at DTU Fotonik at the Technical University of Denmark. Prof. Petersen has more than 25 years of research experience in new diode light sources and he has headed several collaborative research projects. From 2001 until 2007 he was head of Laser Systems and Optical Materials at Risø National Laboratory. Since 2002 he has been adjunct professor in Optics at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University. P. M. Petersen has authored more than 130 international scientific publications and holds 12 patents. Prof. Paul Michael Petersen is the chairman of the Danish LED-network and chairman for Center for Biomedical Optics.

INTRODUCTION
PART 1 FUNDAMENTALS
SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS
GROWTH /
EPITAXI
MODELING
HIGH-POWER TAPERS AND BARS
MODE-LOCKING /
Q-SWITCHING (DYNAMIC)
PART 2 TECHNOLOGY
LED
LASERS (VISIBLE/NIR)
BLUE LASERS
QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS
SLD/SOA
LASERS BASED ON FREQUENCY CONVERSION
RELIABILITY
PART 3 APPLICATIONS
PHOTO-CHEMICAL APPLICATIONS
Photodynamic Therapy, Flourescence, Spectroscopy
NEAR-INFRARED IMAGING: STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL INFORMATION
LEDS AND THEIR APPLICATION IN HUMAN BRAIN MONITORING
SPECTRAL QUALITY OF LIGHT MODULATES EMOTIONAL BRAIN RESPONSES IN HUMANS
LED APPLICATIONS IN BIOLOGY/MEDICINER
AMAN SPECTROSCOPY
NONLINEAR IMAGING HIGH-POWER APPLICATIONS (TITLE TENTATIVE)
OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (TENTATIVE)
CONCLUSION AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES