Femtosecond Laser Pulses Principles and Experiments /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rullière, Claude (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2005.
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Series: Advanced Texts in Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Lasers.; Photonics.; Optics.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Laser Technology, Photonics.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.

This is the second edition of this advanced textbook written for scientists who require further training in femtosecond science. Four years after pub- cation of the ?rst edition, femtosecond science has overcome new challenges and new application ?elds have become mature. It is necessary to take int...

Table of Contents:

• Laser Basics
• Pulsed Optics
• Methods for the Generation of Ultrashort Laser Pulses: Mode-Locking
• Further Methods for the Generation of Ultrashort Optical Pulses
• Pulsed Semiconductor Lasers
• How to Manipulate and Change the Characteristics of Laser Pulses
• How to Measure the Characteristics of Laser Pulses
• Spectroscopic Methods for Analysis of Sample Dynamics
• Coherent Effects in Femtosecond Spectroscopy: A Simple Picture Using the Bloch Equation
• Terahertz Femtosecond Pulses
• Coherent Control in Atoms, Molecules and Solids
• Attosecond Pulses.