| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 652 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Optics and photonics |
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Optics and photonics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Language |
English. |
| Summary |
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, the book serves as a guide to designing and constructing femtosecond systems. The second edition has updated and expanded its content, and includes more examples of ultrashort sources and a more comprehensive fundamentals chapter. Diagnostic techniques and applications involving sensors, mode-locked lasers, and imaging have been fully revised to include current technologies. Written in a tutorial style, this book is suitable for senior undergraduate and graduate students as well as engineers and scientists working in the areas of optics, spectroscopy, optical imaging, photochemistry, and ultrafast science and engineering. *Provides an easy to follow guide through "faster than electronics" probing and detection methods *THE manual on designing and constructing femtosecond systems and experiments *Discusses essential technology for applications in micro-machining, femtochemistry, and medical imaging. |
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Laser pulses, Ultrashort.
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Physics.
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Physics |
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Impulsions laser ultra-brèves. |
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Physique. |
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physics. |
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Laser pulses, Ultrashort |
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Physics |
| Added Author |
Rudolph, Wolfgang, 1956-
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| Other Form: |
0-08-054335-9 |
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0-12-215493-2 |
| ISBN |
0080466400 (electronic bk.) |
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9780080466408 (electronic bk.) |
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1280728892 |
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9781280728891 |
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9786610728893 |
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6610728895 |
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