Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Thomson, Robert (Editor), Leburn, Christopher (Editor), Reid, Derryck (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Scottish Graduate Series
• Subjects: Physics.; Lasers.; Photonics.; Optics.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Laser Technology, Photonics.

The field of ultrafast nonlinear optics is broad and multidisciplinary, and encompasses areas concerned with both the generation and measurement of ultrashort pulses of light, as well as those concerned with the applications of such pulses. Ultrashort pulses are extreme events – both in terms of the...