Beschreibung
InhaltsangabeI Generation, Amplification and Compression of Ultrashort Light Pulses.- Chirped Pulse Amplification: Present and Future.- Generation of Intense 20-fs Pulses and Their Application in Multiphoton Ionization.- Generation of Tunable 9-fs Optical Pulses in the Near Infrared.- Amplification and Compression of 16-fs Spectrally Broadened Pulses to the Microjoule Level at 10 kHz.- Generation of High-Repetition-Rate 14-fs Amplified Pulses Using a Q-Switched CW YAG Pumping Laser.- 10 kHz-Rate Amplification of 40-fs Optical Pulses at Low Pumping Energy.- Generation of 29-fs Pulses from a Synchronously Pumped Dye Laser and Its Cavity-Dumping Technique.- Colliding Pulse Mode-Locked Femtosecond Laser Using Binary-Energy-Transfer Gain Dye Mixture.- Saturable Amplification Without Pulse Broadening.- General Analysis of Optical Cavities for Femtosecond Dye Lasers.- Chirp-Compensation Cavity-Mirrors of Small Third-Order Dispersion for a Femtosecond Pulse Laser.- Theoretical and Experimental Study of Synchronously Pumped Dispersion Compensated Femtosecond Fiber Raman Lasers and Amplifiers.- Compression of the High Energy Pulsed Mode-Locked Nd:YLF and Nd:YAG Lasers.- Active Pulse Compression.- Two Novel Techniques for Femtosecond Pulse Compression: Utilization of Induced Phase Modulation and Highly Nonlinear Organic-Fibers.- Generation of Sub-100-fs Pulses at 532 nm from Modulation Instability Induced by Cross-Phase Modulation in Optical Fibers.- Femtosecond Continuum Generation in Fibers Near 1.6 ?m.- Picosecond Pulse Generation by Two-Photon Induced Amplified Spontaneous Emission.- Mode-Locked Continuous Wave Titanium Sapphire Laser.- Non-soliton Modelocking of an F-Centre Laser with a Nonlinear External Cavity.- Significance of Enhanced Differential Gain for Short Pulse Generation in Semiconductor Lasers.- Characteristics of Picosecond Pulse Amplification by a Traveling-Wave InGaAsP Optical Amplifier.- A Few Tens of Picoseconds Light Source of Continuous Spectrum with Cherenkov Radiation.- II Generation of Short-Wavelength Ultrashort Light Pulses.- Generation of High Power UV Femtosecond Pulses.- Subpicosecond UV Pulse Generation for Multiterawatt XeCl and KrF Lasers.- Subpicosecond, High-Brightness Excimer Laser Systems.- Sub-100-fs Pulse Generation from Continuously Pumped Coumarin Dye Lasers in the Green-Blue.- Generation of Intense Tunable Femtosecond Pulses in the Deep Blue Spectral Region.- New Developments in Ultraviolet and High Intensity Femtosecond Sources.- III Propagation, Control and Measurement of Ultrashort Light Pulses.- Dispersive Pulse Shaping and Soliton-like Pulses in a Passively Mode-Locked Dye Ring Laser.- Control and Characterization of Soliton-like Pulses in a Femtosecond Dye Laser.- Solitons in the Region of the Minimum Group Dispersion Wavelength of a Single Mode Optical Fibre.- Femtosecond Pulse Tailoring for Dark Soliton Propagation Studies.- White Light Interferometric Measurements of Femtosecond Group Delay in Optical Components with 1-fs Precision.- Caution! IR Pulses May Be Distorted After Propagation in Atmospheric Air.- Pulse Front Distortion in Lens Systems.- Blue Shifting of Intense Femtosecond Pulses in Gas Breakdown and Solid State Plasmas.- Time Domain Phase Conjugation and Twin Fields of Picosecond Light Continuum.- Picosecond to Femtosecond Optical Synthesizers.- Synthesis and Applications of Arbitrarily Shaped Optical Pulses in Coherent Spectroscopy and Nonlinear Pulse Propagation.- A New Method for Measuring Ultrashort Optical Pulses.- A Phase Sensitive Single Pulse Autocorrelator for Ultrashort Laser Pulses.- Single Shot Measurement of Optical Phase Modulation with Subpicosecond Resolution by Temporal Holography.- A Method of Evaluation of Ultrashort Light Pulses Based on Self-Phase Modulation.- Measurement of Femtosecond Pulsewidths Using Interference Autocorrelation.- Recent Advances Towards a 100-fs-Resolution Streak Camera.- IV Opto-Electronics and Communications.- Advanced Optical Communications
Autorenporträt
InhaltsangabeContents: Generation, Amplification and Compression of Ultrashort Light Pulses.- Generation of Short-Wavelength Ultrashort Light Pulses.- Propagation, Control and Measurement of Ultrashort Light Pulses.- Opto-Electronics and Communications.- Applications to Solid-State Physics.- Dynamical Processes in Semiconductor Quantum Wells and Microstructures.- Nonlinear Optics, Coherent Spectroscopy and Spectroscopic Methods.- Dynamics on Surfaces and at Interfaces.- Energy Transfer and Relaxation.- Chemical Reaction and Solvation Dynamics.- Dynamics of Biological Processes.- Index of Contributors.
