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Ultrashort laser pulse phenomena : fundamentals, techniques, and applications on a femtosecond time scale /

Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena serves as an introduction to the phenomena of ultrashort laser pulses and describes how this technology can be applied in areas such as spectroscopy, medical imaging, electromagnetism, optics, and quantum physics. Combining the principles with experimental techniques...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Diels, Jean-Claude
Otros Autores: Rudolph, Wolfgang, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; London : Elsevier/Academic Press, ©2006.
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:Optics and photonics.
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  • Cover
  • Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Preface
  • Preface to the First Edition
  • Chapter 1. Fundamentals
  • 1.1. CHARACTERISTICS OF FEMTOSECOND LIGHT PULSES
  • 1.2. PULSE PROPAGATION
  • 1.3. INTERACTION OF LIGHT PULSES WITH LINEAR OPTICAL ELEMENTS
  • 1.4. GENERATION OF PHASE MODULATION
  • 1.5. BEAM PROPAGATION
  • 1.6. NUMERICAL MODELING OF PULSE PROPAGATION
  • 1.7. SPACE-TIME EFFECTS
  • 1.8. PROBLEMS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Chapter 2. Femtosecond Optics
  • 2.1. INTRODUCTION
  • 2.2. WHITE LIGHT AND SHORT PULSE INTERFEROMETRY
  • 2.3. DISPERSION OF INTERFEROMETRIC STRUCTURES
  • 2.4. FOCUSING ELEMENTS
  • 2.5. ELEMENTS WITH ANGULAR DISPERSION
  • 2.6. WAVE-OPTICAL DESCRIPTION OF ANGULAR DISPERSIVE ELEMENTS
  • 2.7. OPTICAL MATRICES FOR DISPERSIVE SYSTEMS
  • 2.8. NUMERICAL APPROACHES
  • 2.9. PROBLEMS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Chapter 3. Light-Matter Interaction
  • 3.1. DENSITY MATRIX EQUATIONS
  • 3.2. PULSE SHAPING WITH RESONANT PARTICLES
  • 3.3. NONLINEAR, NONRESONANT OPTICAL PROCESSES
  • 3.4. SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION (SHG)
  • 3.5. OPTICAL PARAMETRIC INTERACTION
  • 3.6. THIRD-ORDER SUSCEPTIBILITY
  • 3.7. CONTINUUM GENERATION
  • 3.8. SELF-FOCUSING
  • 3.9. BEAM TRAPPING AND FILAMENTS
  • 3.10. PROBLEMS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Chapter 4. Coherent Phenomena
  • 4.1. FROM COHERENT TO INCOHERENT INTERACTIONS
  • 4.2. COHERENT INTERACTIONS WITH TWO- LEVEL SYSTEMS
  • 4.3. MULTIPHOTON COHERENT INTERACTION
  • 4.4. PROBLEMS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Chapter 5. Ultrashort Sources I: Fundamentals
  • 5.1. INTRODUCTION
  • 5.2. CIRCULATING PULSE MODEL
  • 5.3. EVOLUTION OF THE PULSE ENERGY
  • 5.4. PULSE SHAPING IN INTRACAVITY ELEMENTS
  • 5.5. CAVITIES
  • 5.6. PROBLEMS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Chapter 6. Ultrashort Sources II: Examples
  • 6.1. SYNCHRONOUS MODE-LOCKING
  • 6.2. HYBRID MODE-LOCKING
  • 6.3. ADDITIVE PULSE MODE-LOCKING
  • 6.4. MODE-LOCKING BASED ON NONRESONANT NONLINEARITY
  • 6.5. NEGATIVE FEEDBACK
  • 6.6. SEMICONDUCTOR-BASED SATURABLE ABSORBERS
  • 6.7. SOLID-STATE LASERS
  • 6.8. SEMICONDUCTOR AND DYE LASERS
  • 6.9. FIBER LASERS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Chapter 7. Femtosecond Pulse Amplification
  • 7.1. INTRODUCTION
  • 7.2. FUNDAMENTALS
  • 7.3. NONLINEAR REFRACTIVE INDEX EFFECTS
  • 7.4. CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION (CPA)
  • 7.5. AMPLIFIER DESIGN
  • 7.6. OPTICAL PARAMETRIC CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION (OPCPA)
  • 7.7. PROBLEMS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Chapter 8. Pulse Shaping
  • 8.1. PULSE COMPRESSION
  • 8.2. SHAPING THROUGH SPECTRAL FILTERING
  • 8.3. PROBLEMS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Chapter 9. Diagnostic Techniques
  • 9.1. INTENSITY CORRELATIONS
  • 9.2. INTERFEROMETRIC CORRELATIONS
  • 9.3. MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES
  • 9.4. PULSE AMPLITUDE AND PHASE RECONSTRUCTION
  • 9.5. PROBLEMS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Chapter 10. Measurement Techniques of Femtosecond S.