This is the first comprehensive book on the engineering of diamond optical devices. Written by 39 experts in the field, it gives readers an up-to-date review of the properties of optical quality synthetic diamond (single crystal and nanodiamond) and the nascent field of diamond optical device engineering. Application areas covered in detail in this book include quantum information processing, high performance lasers and light sources, and bioimaging. It provides scientists, engineers and physicists with a valuable and practical resource for the design and development of diamond-based optical devices.

Rich Mildren is Associate Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Macquarie University?s Department of Physics, Australia. He obtained his PhD in the plasma kinetics of high power metal vapor lasers in 1997. His postdoctoral research has included laser ? plasma interactions, power scaling of copper vapor lasers and in wavelengths versatile solid-state lasers. In 2005-2008, he joined Med-Aesthetic Solutions International Pty Ltd to lead R&D of high energy wavelength-switchable lasers for skin treatment applications. Since returning to Macquarie University in 2008, he has pioneered research in diamond Raman lasers. He has over 150 publications and several patents.

James Rabeau is Associate Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the Department of Physics at Macquarie University, Sydney. He obtained his PhD research from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland in diamond chemical vapour deposition and cavity ring-down spectroscopy of diamond forming plasmas. He moved to the University of Melbourne for a post-doctoral fellowship where he continued his research in diamond synthesis and applications of single colour centres. He joined Macquarie University in Sydney in 2007 and has built an international reputation for diamond based applications in quantum science and biological imaging.

1. Intrinsic Optical Properties of Diamond
2. Optical Quality Diamond Grown by Chemical Vapour Deposition
3. Polishing and Shaping of Mono-Crystalline Diamond
4. Refractive and Diffractive Diamond Optics
5. Nitrogen-Vacancy Colour Centres in Diamond: Properties, Synthesis and Applications
6. n-Type Diamond Growth and Homoepitaxial Diamond Junction Devices
7. Surface Doping of Diamond and Induced Optical Effects
8. Diamond Raman Laser Design and Performance
9. Quantum Optical Diamond Technologies
10.Diamond-based Optical Waveguides, Cavities and Other Microstructures
11.Thermal Management of Lasers and LEDs using Diamond
12.Laser in Synthesis, Micro and Nanoprocessing of Diamond Materials
13. Fluorescent Nanodiamonds and their Prospects in Bioimaging