Excimer Lasers
By: edited by Lucien D. Laude
Series: NATO ASI Series, Series E: Applied Sciences -- 265; NATO ASI Series, Series E: Applied Sciences -- 265
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 495
ISBN-13: 9789048143955; 9789401581042
Subjects: Physical organic chemistry; Surfaces (Physics); Environmental protection; Ophthalmology; Vascular Surgery
Other titles: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on `Excimer Lasers: the Tools, Fundamental Processes and Applications', Elounda, Crete, Greece, September 6--17, 1993
Description: Among the many intense light sources, excimer lasers have a unique set of properties that place them at the forefront of tooling for material processing. Their extreme versatility means that they can be used in many areas of materials science and medicine. But three conditions need to be fulfilled in order that their versatility be truly appreciated and exploited: the characteristics and limitations of the sources must be known; the basic excimer laser processes should become reasonably widely known; and problems in search of a solution should be clearly identified. Excimer Lasers covers all three of these points in an instructive and logical way. Probably for the first time, both instrumental and fundamental aspects of excimer laser interaction with matter are presented side-by-side, with examples drawn from the widest range of materials. The articles gathered here are tutorial in their nature, thus making them suitable for a wide readership, from recent graduates and postgraduate students to those established scientists entering the field, all of whom could not find a better, nor more authoritative work with which to start their reading.
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