Semiconductor lasers possess unique features in terms of performance, size and impact, and user-friendliness. From a team of international experts this book provides readers with a solid reference of the fundamentals of these devices through to the technologies and applications in bio-optics and biophotonics.

• Chapter 1: Introduction to semiconductor light sources and their biomedical applications


• Chapter 2: Fundamentals on modeling of edge-emitting semiconductor lasers and superluminescent light-emitting diodes


• Chapter 3: Q-switched and mode-locked lasers for biophotonic applications


• Chapter 4: Light-emitting diode technologies


• Chapter 5: GaN-based blue vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers


• Chapter 6: Quantum cascade lasers


• Chapter 7: Diode laser systems based on nonlinear frequency conversion


• Chapter 8: Semiconductor disk lasers


• Chapter 9: Potential biomedical use of diode-laser-induced luminescence from upconverting nanoparticles


• Chapter 10: Near-infrared spectroscopy systems for biomedical applications


• Chapter 11: Semiconductor lasers for bio-medical Raman spectroscopy


• Chapter 12: Nonlinear imaging applications of high-power lasers: figures of merit


• Chapter 13: Optical coherence tomography