**Meet the editor**

Yufei Ma received his PhD degree in Physical Electronics from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 2013. From September 2010 to September 2011 he spent time as a visiting scholar at Rice University, USA. Currently, he is an associate professor at the Harbin Institute of Technology, China. His research interests include optical sensors, trace gas detection, laser spectroscopy, and

optoelectronics. Up to now he has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers. He has served as an academic editor for two SCI-indexed journals.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Laser Technology 1**

Michael Petersen

**Fiber Lasers 23**

**Section 2 Laser Applications 41**

**in Liquid 63**

Suraya Abdul Rashid

**Technology 85**

**Prematurity 107** Simona Delia Nicoară

Babar Ibrahim Muhammad

Yachen Gao and Deigui Kong

Chapter 5 **Quantitative Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence**

Chapter 1 **Tunable High-Power External-Cavity GaN Diode Laser Systems**

Chapter 3 **Nonlinear Optical Response of Noble Metal Nanoparticles 43**

Chapter 4 **Laser Ablation Technique for Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticle**

Zhen Yang, Xin Yu, Jiangbo Peng and Jianlong Zhang

Chapter 6 **Indirect Diode Laser in the Treatment of Retinopathy of**

Amir Reza Sadrolhosseini, Mohd Adzir Mahdi, Farideh Alizadeh and

Mingjun Chi, Ole Bjarlin Jensen, Anders Kragh Hansen and Paul

**in the Visible Spectral Range 3**

Chapter 2 **Cladding Pumped Thulium-Ytterbium Short Pulse**
