Few-Cycle Laser Pulse Generation and Its Applications

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kärtner, Franz X. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2004.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
• Series: Topics in Applied Physics, 95
• Subjects: Lasers.; Photonics.; Engineering.; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.; Engineering, general.

This book covers the physics and technology of short pulse laser sources that generate pulses with widths of only a few optical cycles. The basic design considerations for the different systems, such as lasers, parametric amplifiers and external compression techniques, which have emerged over the la...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Few-Cycle Pulse Generation: Theory and Experiments
• Solid-State Materials for Few-Cycle Pulse Generation and Amplification
• Few-Cycle Pulses Directly from the Laser
• Few-Cycle Pulses by External Compression
• Parametric Amplification and Phase Control of Few-Cycle Light Pulses
• Part II: Characterization of Ultrashort Laser Pulses: Measuring Ultrashort Pulses in the Single-Cycle Regime
• Characterization of Ultrashort Pulses in the Few-Cycle Regime Using Spectral Phase Interferometry for Direct Electric Field Reconstruction
• Part III: Applications: Optical Frequency-Comb Generation and High-Resolution Laser Spectroscopy
• Carrier-Envelope Phase Stabilization of Single and Multiple Femtosecond Lasers
• Sub-Femtosecond XUV-Pulses: Attosecond Metrology and Spectroscopy
• Resonant Non-Perturbative Extreme Nonlinear Optics with Two-Cycle Pulses
• Dynamics of the Photoexcited Hydrated Electron
• Subject Index.