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  • OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2008),
  • paper FA2
  • https://doi.org/10.1364/AOE.2008.FA2

Laser Spectroscopy Applied to the Environmental and Medical Fields

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Abstract

An overview of applied laser-based diagnostics as pursued at the Atomic Physics Division, Lund University, is given. The fields of application range from environmental monitoring including cultural heritage assessment to biomedical applications. General aspects of laser-based methods are non-intrusiveness, high spectral and spatial resolution, and data production in real-time. Different applications are frequently generically very similar irrespective of the particular context, which however, decides the spatial and temporal scales as well as the size of the optics employed. Thus, volcanic plume mapping by lidar and optical mammography are two manifestations of the same principle, as is fluorescence imaging of a human bronchus by an endoscope and the scanning of a cathedral using a fluorescence lidar system. Recent applications include remote laser-induced break-down spectroscopy (LIBS) and gas monitoring in scattering media (GASMAS).Sune Svanberg is Head of the Atomic Physics Division, Lund University, and director of the Lund Laser Centre, Sweden. He got his PhD in optical resonance spectroscopy in 1972 from Goteborg University, Sweden, where he stayed on till 1980, when he moved to Lund University. He spent research periods at the Technical University Berlin, Columbia University, Stanford University and MIT. His research field is basic and applied laser spectroscopy, presently with the emphasis on environmental and medical applications. He has well over 500 scientific papers, several patents and helped in the formation of several spin-off companies. He is a member of several academies including the Royal Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, where he for 10 years served on the Nobel Committee for Physics. He has many prizes and award including the Quantum Electronics Award of the EPS, the Azko-Nobel Science Award, the Willis E. Lamb Medal and the Celsius Medal. He is honorary doctor or professor at several universities including Jilin University, Harbin Institute of Technology and Zhejiang University. He is also Einstein Professor with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He served on the Board of Directors of the Optical Society of America, and is presently on the Board of the Swedish Research Council. Article not available.

© 2008 Optical Society of America


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